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it is deleted from the basket. (The message is not placed in the WASTE basket.)
Users who are surrogates of the Postmaster can "become" the Postmaster and
read the baskets containing the messages waiting to be transmitted. They are
not able do anything that would let them see the text of the messages, but they
are able to take other actions with them, like move them to the head or end of
the queue.
When a message is addressed to a remote site, the message is placed in a
special basket in the Postmaster's (DUZ=.5) mailbox (file 3.7). This basket
is also called a queue. The basket IEN is 1000 plus the IEN of the Domain in
the Domain file (4.2). The basket name is the name of the Domain. For
example, if the message is addressed to someone at FORUM, and DOMAIN.EXT is
at IEN 4 in file 4.2, then the message is placed in the Postmaster's mailbox,
in a basket named DOMAIN.EXT, whose IEN is 1004. If the basket doesn't
exist, it is created automatically. Once the message has been transmitted,
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