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to: JANIS KRACHT
from: JEFF SMITH
date: 2016-04-09 16:05:00
subject: BBBS Polling?

Hello Janis.

09 Apr 16 15:41, you wrote to me:

 JK> Hi Jeff,

 >> Here's another BBBS question. Recently I have noticed that when I do
 >> an ALT-P to poll a node number. BBBS node #1 goes into a polling
 >> loop and continues to poll the same node number. The polls are
 >> successful and complete ok. I can sto the loop process by deleting
 >> the poll via  BBBS Outbound Manager (BOM). This behavior just
 >> started in the day or so and no recent changes have been made to the
 >> BBBS configuration.

 JK> Are you using the [node_remap] section in external.bbb, or are you
 JK> letting bbbs find this node in the nodelist?

 JK> I've had this kind of thing happen to me when I messed up some small
 JK> detail in the remap section, like forgetting the comma in
 JK> ",1:xx/xxx.0[...] or the .0 in the node number in the node remap
 JK> section.

Are you really trying to suggest that that period should be changed to a
coma? Really? 



 JK> Take care,
 JK> Janis

 JK> --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2

Jeff

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