[Dxspider-support] Re: dxspider

[Dirk Koopman]

On 25 Jun 2001 09:34:20 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> Without the debug information (have a look at the directory:
> /spider/data/debug/2001) I can't really do anything other than guess at
> what the problem is.
> 
> But, in general, a problem like this is caused by one side or the other
> getting confused and not sending a acknowledgement packet to a request. 
>

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993343064^<- I K1TTT
PC28^KC2CWT-9^OK0DXX^ALL^G4WXT^04-Jun-2001^0456Z^0^vu7jx????.^ ^5^0^
^K1TTT^~
993343064^-> D K1TTT PC30^OK0DXX^KC2CWT-9^14^
993343065^<- I K1TTT PC29^KC2CWT-9^K1TTT^14^Hi, anyone got any info on
this one?, pirate or the real^~
993343065^PC29 from unknown stream 14 from K1TTT
993343066^<- I K1TTT PC29^KC2CWT-9^K1TTT^14^thing?.^~
993343066^PC29 from unknown stream 14 from K1TTT
993343066^<- I K1TTT PC29^KC2CWT-9^K1TTT^14^tnx george.^~
993343066^PC29 from unknown stream 14 from K1TTT
993343066^<- I K1TTT PC32^KC2CWT-9^K1TTT^14^
993343066^PC32 from unknown stream 14 from K1TTT

This is the relevant information from the debug file and I am afraid to
say that you have got AR-Cluster mail disease.

The problem is that the current versions of ARC do not impliment the
mail protocol correctly. Specifically they don't put the correct
callsign into the third field of the PC28 (in this case it should be
K1TTT instead of OK0DXX) and also don't fill in the origin field
correctly either (the last field, which should be OK0DXX instead of
K1TTT).

Now, in theory, I could do an 'ARC special hack' to accommodate this but
I know that they are aware of this problem and I presume that they are
likely to fix it, possibly even soon - in which case the hack would
probably stop the mail working again!

Lemme think about this...

Dirk G1TLH