> I think that it is something to do with archivers perhaps?  On the mystic
> system I unzipped all the .sec files and they were indeed pkt's and hpt
> tossed them just fine.

Good, I saw your test messages in the aftershock area.

It may be your archiver setup that is causing the issue so have a look at that.

> On the synchronet test it renames them to .bad and I am unable to unarchive
> those to test.

Those might be plain packets already, so check the log and see if there is a different issue with those. A missing or unexpected password perhaps.

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