On Thursday January 07 1999 at 06:36, Tom Hall at 1:342/1 wrote to Dallas
Hinton:

 TH> On Wednesday January 06 1999, at 20:22, Dallas Hinton at
 TH> 1:153/715 wrote to Tom Hall:

 TH>>> One of my downlinks runs GEcho, and since about the
 TH>>> time I upgraded my Squish to the Y2K-compliant
 TH>>> version, he's been complaining about having to
 TH>>> manually unpack and toss echomail bundles from my
 TH>>> system -- and apparently ONLY from my system.

 DH>> FWIW, I'm also running the y2k version, and my UPlink
 DH>> runs gecho -- I haven't heard any complaints (yet). Is
 DH>> it possible a packet password got in (or got left
 DH>> out)??

 TH> Not on my end -- but I'll explore this with my downlink.

My GEcho downlink sent me a couple of bundles his tosser ignored.
Coincidentally or not, both bundles' original extensions ended in letters,
not digits. I know nothing about GEcho, but is it possible that it only
recognizes arcmail bundles whose extensions end in DIGITS?

The bundles he sent me were fine, Squish tossed them (into my netmail,
since they weren't addressed to me) without any problem at all.

Does anyone know if (A) GEcho has a problem with extended arcmail naming
conventions, or (B) it's possible to force Squish to use only 0-9 as the
termination byte of its arcmail bundle extension names?


Tom

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