mark lewis wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 TL> THe May, 2003 Echolist has been hatched out.

 ml> there is some sort of error in the generation of the rules list and
 ml> archive... 

Looks like the elrul305 zip file was bad

 ml> additionally, there is an error in the saving of the
 ml> rules files with the proper rules file filename...

 ml> the following are all the ones that i update each and every
 ml> month... these are currently sent embedded in the message body and
 ml> sent as email... some of the filenames seem to be derived from the
 ml> echoarea tag when they are sent in this manner. this seems to be a
 ml> problem when the tag is more than 8 characters in length.


 ml> ABRIDGE  RUL         2,697 07-30-02  10:23a

 ml> correct filename for ARROWBRIDGE echo rules file.

That's what was in the origianl zip file


 ml> INET     RUL         1,667 07-30-02  10:23a

 ml> correct filename for INTERNET echo rules file.

Let's see...this is one of the two that blw up every month, and every month
I tell you the robot choles on them, and every month you resend them(note,
they just blew up again).


 ml> whatever it is that is causing this is causing the files to not be
 ml> updated properly and appears to even be causing other content to be
 ml> put into some of the rules files. in looking at the list, there are
 ml> even some that are 0 (zero) bytes in size...

Bad zip file

 ml> the robot appears to be badly broken wrt processing rules files
 ml> from internet email...

No Mark....the robot does not like you internet and os2prog rule files....I
tell that you every month.  There is something in those files that causes
the
robot to hang up, so there's little wonder that some of your submissions
get clobbered.

FWIW, over the years when people have complained about the robot NOT
processing their submissions cvorrectly, it usually hase been something in
the submitted message that's not correct.

I'll upload the elrul305.zip file to the web site.

cya,
thom
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