On Mon, 03 Feb 2014, Vitus Zeel wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>  VZ> @PATH: 240/8001 8001 1120   
      
    BP> hmm 240/8001 is listed 3 times what happend ?   
      
    VZ> thats may be a mystic bug. Well 240/8001 <- here is the .4 missing   
    VZ> from my hotdoged point number i think,   
      
   true... the problem for the PATH is at the second processing system when it   
   added its (duplicate) address...   
      
   SEENBY and PATH are only 2D... net/node...   
      
   seenby are sorted by net and then node... path are not sorted at all...   
      
   in the PATH additional nodes within a net are "compressed" for space and do   
   not carry the "net/" portion...   
      
     eg: path 123/123 456 789 234/345 123/321   
      
   the above example path shows the following...   
      
     originating node 123/123 or a point of 123/123   
            next node 123/456   
            next node 123/789   
            next node 234/345   
            last node 123/321   
      
   the example message was processed by three net123 systems before being   
   processed by a system in net234 and then ending up back in net123 at node   
   321...   
      
    VZ> the 2nd is incomplete and have to be 2:240/8001 without a point    
    VZ> number (my bbs)   
      
   it is fully complete but erroneously duplicated... 240/ in the first entry   
   applies to all following entries in PATH until another "net/" is encountered...   
      
    VZ> and the 1120, the 3th have to be 2:240/1120 fidohub of my bbs.   
      
   see above... it is complete for the posted path and yes, it is for 240/1120...   
   we can only guess at the zone since zones, points and domains are not allowed   
   in the standard 2D SEENBY or PATH lines...   
      
      
   FWIW: 1D is node only   
         2D is net/node   
         3D is zone:net/node   
         4D is zone:net/node.point   
         5D is zone:net/node.point@FTNdomain   
      
         net/node.point is 4D even without the zone   
      
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