On Mon, 22 May 89 12:02:04 GMT Eric Thomas said: >Could someone explain what this VERS8900 update is, why it was named in this >way, and why nobody was notified, even after the fact??? i have done so. please look to EARN-NOG. LISTSERV excpects >updates to be numbered sequentially, so that 8905 is more recent than 8904 and >older than 8906 (aren't they called 'VERSyymm'?). It also does not expect a >month of 00, and 0 minus 1 is a negative number which is not expected in a >number of places (hopefully this doesn't seem to have caused any problem, >apart from renaming the old BITEARN NODES to VERS89-1 which, hopefully, is >accepted by CMS). Other software may have been affected, perhaps even more >severely. i tried to do so, but NETSERV refused it ! > >If there was a REALLY good reason to do this, and there had better be one, we >should have been notified in advance. I hope the BoD members realize the >impact this kind of behaviour can have on the credibility of the current >EARN-supplied NODUPD files model. > > Eric i'm very sorry that i have forgotten to mail to you explicitely, that i had to build a second NODUPD within one month. anyway this had to been done on friday evening, saturday and sunday, because i have to leave tomorrow morning for crete. also this was a single event, and i will not do this again in the future, even if someone asks for it because it took me very much time. -ulrich-