Paul, at 14:55 on May 12 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> _apparently_ successful uploads, just send it again.  If they're dupes, 
BG> Paul's system should detect and delete them automatically anyway.

PE> It doesn't, I don't have any dupe-checking. 

BG> Oh really?  Why the hell not?

PE> Well for starters, Tobruk doesn't have the facility to do so.

That's an unfortunate omission, wouldn't you say?

PE> Secondly, even when I was running Squish, which did, I had it
PE> switched off, because it kept on getting dupes on messages that
PE> I had never seen before.

Funny, I have the opposite problem here.  Most dupes are detected and
deleted correctly, but quite often there will be two consecutive messages
exactly the same, and within a minute of each other, but squish is missing
these ones.

PE> You are responsible for getting your own act together. 

BG> Still believe in a perfect world, do you?

PE> I believe in you taking responsibility for any problems, yes.

Like sticking with software which works, and not being bullied into
upgrading versions purely for the sake of doing so, you mean?  Sound
familiar?

Regards, Bill

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