Hi folks, I just squashed a bug in my TML Incoming Mail Digester
Software. If two messages come in to the TML (the
"[email removed]" address) at the same time, the software
is supposed to serialize its processing so messages get added to the
delivery queue one at a time and so the archive message numbers and
delivery queue don't get messed up.
I discovered today that my lock algorithm was slightly broken so the
serialization did not occur. The end result was that messages were
being lost - they never appeared in the digests. The only clue is that
there is a gap in the archive message numbers (the number in the subject
lines). Over last few months, I've lost three of four messages from TML
subscribers that way.
I'd like to apologize to those of you who have sent messages that
vanished; this behaviour should no longer occur.
James
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Traveller Mailing List Administrator James T Perkins @ Tektronix, Inc
[email removed] Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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