Subj : Fixpak #4 for EMX is available
To   : David Noon
From : George White
Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 03:18 pm

Hi David,

On 26-Mar-01, David Noon wrote to mark lewis:


 DN> Hi mark,

 DN> Replying to a message of mark lewis to David Noon:

 DN>>> 21.03.2001 EMX Fix 4

 DN> [snip]
 ml>> hummm... should i wait our should i patch... it's only been out
 ml>> four days... hummm...

 DN> Backup. Patch. If it messes things up, restore from backup.

 DN> I have d/l'ed the patch archive, but I haven't applied it yet.
 DN> Perhaps this coming weekend

 ml>> BTW: did you get my netmail reply dated 24 mar 2001?

 DN> No.

 DN> It seems message traffic in and out of Z2/R25 is a little flakey
 DN> (or even flakier than usual) at the moment. I netmailed you
 DN> instead of posting another message in the echo because I thought
 DN> echomail was slow, but it seems netmail is taking the long route
 DN> too

The nodes at _both_ ends of the Z1/R25 link have dropped out of FIDO,
so a period of problems was not a suprise.

Routed netmail is even more of a gamble than echomail (and often
slower!) :-(. The only reliable way is to crash a message direct...

George

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