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- From: Lawrence_Chen@lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca (Lawrence Chen)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Re: BMS Site LHAVEN.UUMH.AB.CA
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- Message-ID: <Lawrence_Chen.1o1r@lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 20:13:34 MDT
- Organization: Lunatic Haven BBS
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- In a message dated Sun 20 Dec 92 9:01, Dreamer@lhaven.uumh.ab.ca (lawrence
- wrote:
-
- D> I've just had a partial harddrive failure.....I lost my entire BMS:PUB
- D> directory, and I don't have any backups. I don't plan to recover any
- of
- D> the files at this time....in fact the harddrive should have been
- retired
- D> long ago, except I can't afford to replace it. Now its gone and I'm
- just
- D> going to have to live without.
-
- D> The BMS.DB seems to be mostly intact...so if at some point I find
- D> files to make available, I might....but it won't be during this fiscal
- D> year....I'm already over spent as it is 8-(
-
- There's a bug (or feature) of BMS that if you request a whole slew of
- files, and the files disappear after the start of the transfer but before
- the end...that BMS feels obligated to send you something anyways. Some
- 2.5Megabytes of queue requests went out last night before I realized what
- was going on. Some unlucky users are paying for this feature to receive
- these null files, just as I spent all of most of this morning
- sending.....worse part is my feed site decided it was going to fall back to
- 2400 bps....
-
- Probably bad too since my request from ftpmail came in the same session. I
- finally killed the connection at 16:00 (I do two outgoing sessions, one at
- 01:30 and one at 07:00.....) And, there's a forced call to BMS at 04:00 to
- process requests. Or was....
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- "Just a crazy Engineer with an Amiga and an HP48sx" - The Dreamer
- EMAIL: Lawrence_Chen@lhaven.uumh.ab.ca or "Lawrence Chen" @ 1:134/3002
- PHONE: +1 403 526 6019 FAX: +1 403 529 5102
- Lunatic Haven BBS (1:134/3002): +1 403 526 6957 (14,400 HST/v.32bis)
- Lunatic Haven BBS (UUCP): +1 403 526 5035 (Telebit Worldblazer)
- PRAXIS Society K12 BBS: +1 403 529 1610 (Telebit T2500SA)
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