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Test of TML

A thread of 2 messages, 8 May 1990 to 9 May 1990, in the order they were sent.

#1286 Test of TML

James T Perkins · 8 May 1990

Hi folks! I've been mucking about with the Traveller Mailing List
software.  More specifically, I've physically moved the TML from its old
home (dadla.wr.tek.com, a VAX 11/780 running 4.3 Tahoe) to its new home
(metolius.wr.tek.com, the Sun Sparcstation 1 that sits at my desk).
This is an effort for me to abandon the old VAX for the speedy little
workstation, get all the archives on the local disk (instead of
overloading NFS whenever I build a new archive listing).

Note that you should now use metolius.wr.tek.com in place of
dadla.wr.tek.com for all TML mail.  Dadla should still work fine, but
all it does now is forward the requests on to metolius.  If you have
problems, please let me know at once, with as much detail as you can
provide (entire bounced messages if possible).

I would like the following TMLers to send me a reply ASAP, so I can
ensure that the software is working correctly:

	[email removed] (Paul Netherwood)
	[email removed] (Bart Massey)
	[email removed] (Bryan Hilterbrand)
	[email removed] (Bertil Jonell)
	[email removed] (Dan Corrin)
	[email removed] (Peter L Berghold)
	[email removed] (Richard Johnson)
	[email removed] (Bill Ricker)

Thanks!

James
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Traveller Mailing List Administrator	     James T Perkins @ Tektronix, Inc
[email removed]                      	     Beaverton, Oregon, USA
[email removed]                              "Load Auto/Evade, Beowulf!"

#1288 Re: Test of TML

James T Perkins · 9 May 1990 · reply to #1286

Hi folks!

There were two problems with last night's digest.  One was that there
were two copies of each message.  The other is that the digest id
skipped from V4#5 to V4#7 without anyone ever receiving V4#6.

Both of these problems were my fault directly -- V4#6 didn't get sent
out at all, so I put everything back, fixed the bug in the digesting
program, and tried to resend the digest, expecting that all would be
well and that it would be numbered V4#6.  I had forgotten to clean up
the temporary message staging area (hence a second copy of all messages)
and reset the digest id (hence the jump from #5 to #7).

I do not expect these problems to recur, nor should the biweekly folks
see anything amiss.  Looks like the TML has pretty much successfully
moved.

Oh, one other administrivia point...  Somehow a stray message (was
listed in the archive index as number 1253, but actually was not stamped
with an Archive-Message-Number) got into the TML archives.  The
automatically-generated TML archive index (bundle 104) contains an extra
message that was not part of real TML traffic.  I am working with Dan
Corrin (who manages the TML FTP site) to fix his copy of the index, but
any of you who have a copy of the index I have sent since April 24th may
be in error.

James
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Traveller Mailing List Administrator	     James T Perkins @ Tektronix, Inc
[email removed]                      	     Beaverton, Oregon, USA
[email removed]                              "Load Auto/Evade, Beowulf!"