On Tuesday September 29 2015 19:53, you wrote to Ward Dossche:
WD>> But when the DAILYLST was launched, it was announced that WD>> multiple versions per day with the same name were a possibility. WD>> You said nothing...
MD> I do not remember this but it does not matter. If a wrong decision was MD> taken, it would be better to change it and not to stick with it.
Why do you say it was a wrong decision?
MD> Now look. I have 26 links receiving DAILYLST file echo from me and 8 MD> of them poll my node. It was their decision to poll instead of MD> receiving files from me the next moment after I had received them.
So their decision...
MD> What happens if you hatch several nodelists a day with the same number MD> but with different contents while these 8 links do not manage to MD> receive the first nodelist? Evidently the mailer renames all the MD> following nodelists. So when they poll, they will receive only the MD> first nodelist since for all the other nodelists their name (after MD> renaming) does not correspond to that in the tic file.
So change the setting of these 8 from hold, to crash. What is the problem?
Or configure your system so that they only get the last instead of the first. Only the last one is useful anyway.
