mark lewis wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 ml> yes, i altered the message to remove the vulgarity and
 ml> insinuation... however, something is evidently still wrong with my
 ml> rule as you should not have seen that code... where is GIGO support
 ml> and discussion taking place these days? i see that you are (were?)
 ml> listed as one of the moderators of the GIGO echo... is it still
 ml> listed and carried?

As far as I know it is....there is vistually no traffic, but I do know that
email to Jason Fessler always gets me an answer.

tc> Just processed your latest batch of updates....and yes, there are some
tc> of the rules files that don't get named correctly and get shrunken by
tc> the robot.

 ml> thank you for confirming this...

Yep...but it ain;t the robot that's busted...see below

tc> So, after cursing the thing, whirling my Robotmaster prayer wheel many
tc> times, cleaning my glasses and crossing my toes...I asked myself:

tc> How come the robot can't do something simply like handle a file name
tc> like arrowbridge.rul ?

 ml> as i've done numerous times in the last couple of years since this
 ml> problem cropped up...

tc> Like a thunderbolt hitting in the room, the truth was revealed...the
tc> robot is a DOS application...and as such doesn't know what to do with
tc> an 11 x 3 file name.

 ml> exactly! that's what i've been saying...

Duh....see above...your MOD UPD message says that the rule file is called
arrowbridge.rul...which is NOT an 8 x 3 file name.

tc> So, you might want to humor us all and stick to 8 x 3 file name
tc> conventions...just as an experiment (g).

 ml> *=/I DO NOT SEND ANYTHING LARGER THAN 8.3 FILENAMES/=*

But your MOD UPD message tells us the rule file name is longer than
8 x 3

 ml> the bot tried to create those names... evidently it tried to name
 ml> the the same as the base name of the echotag... i don't know... i
 ml> didn't write the bot or any of the glue programs that you are
 ml> using...

tc> Resubmit the MOD UPD and MOD RUL files that need to be corrected....and
tc> please email me with a ist of the echoes and I'll try to cull out the
tc> misnamed/mis-sized rules files.

 ml> thanks... i'll try to find some time to get the list together and
 ml> get it off to you...

Looking forward to it.

cya,
thom
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