RW> 13 May 04 14:08, mark lewis wrote to Jame Clay:

 ml>> taken care of that by putting in both for the elistin
 ml>> system... now if he can get stuff working via email again,
 ml>> we'll be able to test it and see...


 RW> I've been doing updates with Thom's system via email for the
 RW> better part of 3 years now, without any problems on Thom's
 RW> end.


same here and only that we know of...

 RW> When there seems to be one, he advises me that there's
 RW> a problem with my updates, and eventually, I figure out what
 RW> I didn't do right.


how long would it take you to figure out that having 50 dashes as a header
line in your rules files was causing them to be truncated?

 RW>  I just recently updated my echoes and had
 RW> no problems, here or there.


the only problem i've had recently is the one that started the bruhaha with
the spammer response code... the one i mention above with the dashes has
been ongoing for several years... we talked about it a few times and then
nothing... he's written me and told me that my submissions were locking up
his system when they haven't changed at all in quite a few years and are
the same exact files used to do the updates via netmail... i even set up
the echolist software on my system and used it to submit updates and he
said that they were locking up his system and to use that software to do
the updates... hunh? and then when i've explained more than once that i was
using the software and had the same files imported into it that had been
being submitted for years, again, i'm met with silence and denial... heck,
i've asked for clarification on a few points is the help files that he
publishes with the echolist and have still not gotten any clarification...
now if i can just figure out how to get my rules files to be saved with
their proper filenames, maybe i'll be one more step closer to the end of
whatever winding twisted trail it is that i seem to be wandering on...

)\/(ark