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to: Paul Edwards
from: Keith Richardson
date: 1996-05-19 17:04:06
subject: Packe

KR> hopefully another bug squashed. if this message gets out then things are 
KR> ok. 

KR> unfortunately i have to agree with rod, gmd's behaviour is pretty poor. 
KR> there were 9 messages in that packet, only the last was grunged, but gmd 
KR> rejected the whole packet. the 8 good messages preceeded the bad one, so it 
KR> would seem to me that gmd should have passed on the 8 good ones and bounced 
KR> the one bad one at the end. i'll have a look at the docs to see if i cansee 
KR> any way to override this, my copy did just the same as yours.

 PE> The deficiency was so bad that it rejected the whole packet for
 PE> manual intervention, which is the correct thing to do.  If it was
 PE> an error isolated to a single message, e.g. no seenbys, it would
 PE> just reject the one message.  BFN.  Paul.

the error only affected the last message, it grunged the area field. all
the previous messages had been previously checked with gmd. as frank
reports some dupes from that packet, some of the messages may have made it
through, although it bounced the entire packet back to me.

                           keith
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