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echo: locsysop
to: Frank Malcolm
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1995-07-11 22:55:04
subject: packet naming

PE> PE> Dieter Mirbach        00000000.MO0         00000008.MO0
PE> PE> Rod Speed             00000000.PKT         00000002.PKT
PE> PE> Frank Malcolm         00000000.MO0         00000018.MO0

FM> I see. Is this a new thing? If not, how were you handling the dups
FM> before? Why only Rod, Dieter & me?

No, been doing it ever since my system started.  Mainly to catch
stuff from Dave, that's the most important thing, but point stuff
gets lumped in too, no probs.  I have never handled the dupe
problems, so I don't have backups of your old messages if there
are dupes.  The backups have proved to be very useful.

Only you 3 were the problem because you were all calling your
packets the same thing, so only one would be backed up.  Actually,
I have also noticed that some people calling with Binkley also
have their packets named 00000000.*, but I don't actually know
how to change that.  I originally thought it was a setup option I
didn't know, but the people calling with Binkley that don't have
that problem are Keith, because he sends PKTs, Bill, probably
because his primary address is 3:640/305.9, and David Begley, who
might like to share the secret with the rest of us, but maybe the
secret is to use BTEE 2.50 (a different product to BTPE 3.03 and 
BT 2.50).

BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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