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Skriven 2013-11-02 13:36:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Missing Posts
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 11-01-13  06:42 <=-

 NB> Report from the peanut gallery... I saw 3 sets of that packet show up
 NB> in Controversial Topics, all from Janis's bbs, on the 27th.  (somehow
 NB> that got tagged and into my message packet from one of my
 NB> backup-to-check-reception-bbses... so I also saw the previous day's
 NB> land, with your apology)  The set you put onto Chowda did show up in
 NB> that message packet of mine, but nowhere else that I download from.

 DD> What happened is that some new echoes were added to the backbone and
 DD> all BBSes set lists got re-numbered. I was posting the chile posts
 DD> using an old packet in which the echo numbers were referring to
 DD> Controversial and Home_Automation not Cooking and Home_Cooking as I had
 DD> intended. On the first go I re-sent the packet and the apology to those
 DD> two echoes and everything went fine. 

As I gathered.  Surprisingly, most of the bbses I frequent didn't seem
to be affected by the change... except that the one bbs gave me the new
one as well as the previously tagged ones...

 DD> The second day things became a muddle and nothing worked right. Janis
 DD> tried to toss the packet by hand and it all went up the spout. 

And that's when the three times all ended up in Controversial...

 DD> So, I brute forced things over to Chowda (where I still have an
 DD> account on his non-broadband BBS). And there they lay. Which is,
 DD> now that I think back, the reason that Chowda was never going to
 DD> be one of my regular stops - due to the wonky catch-as-catch-can
 DD> tossing of posts to the rest of FIDO.

He didn't used to be so irregular tossing... maybe it's yet another
little date-related buglet left in v4 to be found out... there was
another spell, ages ago, where messages didn't go out for a while, but
that got fixed...

I enjoyed having a regular Scrabble game going there, though... of the
other two I've been playing, one seems to have vanished into thin air,
and the other now only shows up about once a month... just fast enough
for her turn not to be automatically passed to me... 

 DD> I miss Sean's Outpost - I hope he gets his problems solved and gets up
 DD> and running again.

Twould be nice... all around... :)
 
 DD>> I'll wait until next Sunday before re-posting on another BBS. Which,
 DD>> of course, will be the signal for the Chowdah packet to re-appear.
 DD>> Bv)=
 NB>> Probably.  ;)   One of these days, if I get some time, I might try
 NB>> sending a message or two from Chowda, just to test the propagation...
 NB>> it used to work for me... but maybe there's something screwy going
 NB>> on...?

 DD> As I said above propagation of outbound posts is the reason I quit
 DD> using Chowda to post. He seems to get all the inbound stuff. But, the
 DD> other reason is that the 38k connect speed just seems so draggy and
 DD> slow. Says the guy whose first modem was a 110 baud acoustic coupled
 DD> antique (even then) hooked to a TRaSh-80 8-bit machine.

Doesn't seem all that draggy to me, but then, I haven't got a superfast
computer here to work from, and I think at least some of the other bbses
I call aren't all that fast either... 

ttyl       neb

... Just bring me my chocolate, and s-l-o-w-l-y back away.

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