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Danny wrote, in part ..
> How much, if any, control does an owner have over digests? Particularly,
> can an owner send one out on command. A member said he got a truncated digest
>and asked me to send it again. I didn't know if I could and if so how.
In my experience, truncated mail including digests is a fairly common
occurrence on a few systems. It is probably a data dependent error.
So, simply sending the digest again would result in your subscriber
seeing another truncated digest.
If you archive postings, take a look at the postings from the digest
in question. I suspect you'll find a line with only a period in in
column 1 *or* a line 81 columns wide with a period in column 81. In
either case your subscribers' mail system (or a system close by) is
incorrectly seeing the period by itself as an "end of file" indicator
... ignoring the rest of the digest/mail.
Another symptom of this problem is people occasionally getting
multiple copies of a mail file. This appears in some cases to be
caused by the same problem (period alone on a line). When the
receiving SMTP stops accepting data, the sending SMTP sees this,
thinks that a transmission problem occurred and schedules the mail for
later retransmission.
Hope this helps,
Wayne Smith
The College Hockey Discussion List administrator
Systems Group - CAPS BITNET/CREN: wts@maine
University of Maine System internet: [log in to unmask]
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