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  Re: Weird routing
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Jan 01 2026 09:39 am

 > When I create an areafix, it looks like the netmail is being rerouted to
 > me at /57:
 >
 > 2025-12-28 17:20:39 c:\sbbs\binkit\netmail\3.msg Kurt Weiske (10:100/57)
 > To: Areafix (10:100/57) Attr: 0183 (PRIVATE, CRASH, KILLSENT, LOCAL)
 > Created locally
 >
 > Did I miss something?

If it was a "routing" issue, you'd see sbbsecho.log entries about routing,
e.g. 11/12/25 08:26:57 Routing NetMail (2.msg) to 1:218/700

Do you see log messages like that?
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