Subject: Two bugs

From: Thomas Andrews <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:08:29 -0700 (PDT)

1. I just started experiencing a strange thing:  I had created a "file"
copy designation when I want to send to myself a copy of what I send to
others (so I don't have to go to the send directory to find it).   Today I
started getting these copies back saying they can't be delivered.  Why,
after almost of year of it working?

2. More troubling:  About a month ago I created a folder called "Core"
into which I saved responses from my law school faculty about what our
"core curriculum" should be.  When I went to check for those responses
about a week ago, the folder had disappeared.  I created another one then,
for a new response I had received.  Today the new folder has disappeared.

	a. How or why could this happen when I am (i) certain I created
the folder not once, but twice and (ii) equally certain I did not delete
it.

	b. Are these files likely to be somewhere in cyberheaven waiting
for me to pluck them back?  I.e. Can I get them back?   

Tom Andrews
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Washington School of Law
1100 N.E. Campus Pkwy.
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206-543-2644  Fax: 206-543-5671
Email: [email-masked]

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From: Tony Iannotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:21:38 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Thomas Andrews wrote:

> others (so I don't have to go to the send directory to find it).  Today
> I started getting these copies back saying they can't be delivered. 
> Why, after almost of year of it working? 

  You should check with your site administrators. Show them the error
message, and they should know what it means. Pine doesn't do the
delivering, programs like sendmail do, and usually include the reasons for
failure in the error messages. There may well have been a local
configuration change that broke something, or made it more picky.

> about a week ago, the folder had disappeared.  I created another one
> then, for a new response I had received.  Today the new folder has
> disappeared.

  You picked an unfortunate choice of names. In unix core files are the
result of programs going south, and often the systems are set up to
periodically find and delete them. Again, you need to check with your
local administrator. Sounds like they have been working with sendmail
configs and skulker scripts.

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