20 Nov 16 09:18, you wrote to me:

 ml>> in my case, i think i'm going to see if i can locate a tool i used
 ml>> years ago and delete your broken messages from those PKTs... then
 ml>> i'll rename them back to *.PKT and hand them to my tosser again so it
 ml>> can toss the other messages... they'll be delayed by up to three days
 ml>> but delayed is better than lost in most cases...

 NB> Or, not to get too far ahead of yourself, let him test one or two more
 NB> times and see that he's now using 'pktdate' and producing proper
 NB> timestamps.

yes, that's pktdate creating those datetime stamps at the time it processed the
PKTs... unfortunately they are not the datetime that the message was actually
created... but i had also forgotten about using pktdate on outgoing... there
are/were some systems doing this because they were using software that was not
y2k compliant...

 NB> He is a leaf node, not a hub of any kind. So if he needs to use
 NB> 'pktdate' with his software it shouldn't need to be changed again
 NB> after his system.

the main thing i am looking at is that the messages, when exported, should
contain the datetime stamp which should be imported into each packed message...
why they are not, i have no clue... it could be because the messages simply do
not get datetime stamps when they are created... i've known of software doing
exactly that so as to prevent tracking of the poster's activities... today they
call it "meta data"...

 NB> However, if he were to ever change that and link to others, then we'll
 NB> have another issue we'll have to deal with, as his system will add to
 NB> the confusion by changing original timestamps.

 NB> Until then, though.. I think he may have solved his issue.

a bandaid at best but yes... it will work for now...

personally, if i were working on such a system, i'd do the export but not
transport anything off system until the PKTs and their messages were inspected
and seen to be of valid format... once that was determined, then and only then
would i send them off system to another and see if they are proccessed
correctly... but that's just me, i guess...

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