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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Niels Petersen
date: 1996-04-27 20:52:32
subject: Email

> NP> For your own AVT messages the following happened
        [ CHOMP ]
 > NP> All others days since then have been OK

 > NP> I think that the above losses would have
 > NP> been an overflow on someomes system.

 > Yep, pretty convincing evidence.

That is what I figured as the only cause for the Black Hole loss of messages.


 > NP> On a number of days there are more of your messages
 > NP> hitting Brisbane than left Sydney, but this is due
 > NP> to someones system splitting your long messages.

 > Shit, forgot about that, what a fuckup. I awked that list from
 > the OLX OUTBOX, before OLX does the splitting when making the REP.

 > I'll do another list, but its a bit more
 > tricky to do it over the outgoing PKTs.

Aren't your running FRODO now?

 > NP> The extra's caused by splitting could however cover a lost
 > NP> message to Bris and I wouldn't know If you want the count
 > NP> to be exact then limiting your message length would ensure
 > NP> that the figures for Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane were all exact.

 > Probably better to just do the list properly by using the outgoing
 > PKTs as the input to the list generator instead. It covers a longer
 > period than the OLX OUTBOX anyway. Just not so convenient to Awk them.

I'm not sure what you are on about here, but the extra messages are not a
real problem. Usually only you, and my brain has got used to the
dicrepancy.

Kind regards
Niels Petersen

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