Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Russ Johnson
Date : Sat Jun 16 2001 05:41 am

>> Better quality message areas. Among other things. Closer knit
>> community.
>The community is shrinking.  If I were a newbie here purusing the echolist and
> turning on the ones that caught my eye I'd be in for one huge disappointment
> sitting here waiting to witness that close knit community.  How long would I
> wait before looking elsewhere?

That's what we're trying to turn around, and I hear you saying, it can't be 
done that way. Now who's having a defeatest attitude? :)

> You don't get around much do you?  I got an archive yesterday that was ~55k
> that was corrupt.  The entire archive could not be processed because of one
>message in there with a grunged header.  I have seen it happen far too often t
> say that there is nothing wrong with the packet format.  Have you ever looked
> at it closely?  I don't see much logic there and it doesn't take much to ruin
> an entire archive.  It is a bad joke supposedly in the name of backwards
> compatibility.  I can easily argue that it isn't.

Something had to happen to cause that. It doesn't happen here. But then, it's 
one of those things we deal with when we deal with computers. That's not the 
packets fault. It's usually the software that wrote the packet.

Russ

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