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to: Ronald Yii
from: Paul Markham
date: 1994-04-08 20:31:12
subject: massive problems

RY> Hello Paul!



 RY> On Thursday April 07 1994, Paul Markham wrote to Paul Edwards:



 PM>> Hmm, well I received a bad packet that contained a grunged message and

 PM>> 700 dupes. The dupes could have been because Squish processed part of

 PM>> the packet before it decided it was bad.



 PM>> Any one else have trouble?



 RY> I've received 3 bad pkt totalling 3megs over the last 3 days (and I've

 RY> only found out about it today!!!). I've tried using Tobruk on it, but

 RY> it's not tossing it into the messagebase [tobruk -csquish.cfg -ppkt

 RY> location]. Funny thing is, Tobruk doesn't report an error for the PKT but

 RY> Squish refuses to touch it (that's for one of the pkt anyway, the other 2

 RY> are just plain GRUNGED)



Two of the packets I've received over the last three days have had grunged
messages. Squish spat the dummy on the first grunged packet of mine, so I
found out straight away.



I've taken to examining and fixing packets before tossing them.





Paul



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