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Hello Ben - 

CA>> I have had to move on to other OLRs as have many others
CA>> who originally used BlueWave. It is broken, will never be
CA>> fixed, and should be layed to rest along with all the
other abandoned projects that are not Y2K. 

BC> Broken or a bug, matter of opinion. (A feature is a bug with
BC> seniority) It does have a problem with dates since Y2K, but
BC> Dale Shipp has written a fix that makes if functional. 

Even with Dale's 'fix' when reopening REP packets the damage
was extensive and I was using a registered version 2.30 at the
time. I did not document all of the problems I was having but I
gave up and put BW to rest. 

BC> It seems that Ver2.12 has more problems than Ver2.20/2.30.
BC> I think if I look hard enough most software has some sort
BC> of quirk that to some will cause problems. 

I can't speak for "most" software. My rewrite of ATP has been
in daily use for some years now(?) and I have no surprises. It
does what I rewrote it to do and it does what the author and
other maintainer wrote it to do - every day of the week. 

BC> Jean is running Ver2.12 and at sometime is going to have to
BC> either switch to Ver2.20/230 or some other OLR. 

We're coming to the same fork in the road but from different
avenues. :-) 

BC> There has been several applications that I have had to
BC> replace with something else over the time I have been using
BC> computers. At this point in time BW is not one of them but
BC> who knows it can happen at some point in time. 

The BBS that are 'fixing' the grunged dates are probably in
violation of their agreement to move the mail. These
'agreements' may not be in writing but after reading the
FIDOBACKBONE echo for a few years it looked to me as though
mail movers were expected to scan for errors and not pass them
along to other systems on the backbone. 

There were times when a system that had been offline was
re-started and belched out 10-20 meg of old mail onto the
backbone. It happens. 

The filtering of mail dated more than 3(?) years back is not a
mistake, it's done for a reason. Ignoring this and 'fixing' the
dates is an exploit waiting to bite anyone upstream from that
system. 

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