You wrote: Hi A list of volunteers with Red warning files can be found on my Web Page at: http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/FreeBMD_Errorfiles.htm . I'm still working on some of the information. Could I please ask Co-ordinators to liase with their volunteers to correct the errant files? Regards Allan Raymond Hi, May I respectfully ask what is to be gained by altering 39 files in my case, I noticed another at 50, all done before Winbmd was altered to cope with no age at death. Adding a '?' or '*' was the option open to us at the time. Of course we will alter them if really necessary but they have lasted all this time, and I thought, perhaps wrongly, that we did not ask people to go back on matters of this kind. Regards, John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-D Digest V04 #161 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 19/11/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 19/11/2004

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:26:47 -0000, you wrote: >You wrote: >Hi > >A list of volunteers with Red warning files can be found on my Web Page at: > >http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/FreeBMD_Errorfiles.htm . > >I'm still working on some of the information. > >Could I please ask Co-ordinators to liase with their volunteers to correct >the errant files? > > >Regards > >Allan Raymond > >Hi, >May I respectfully ask what is to be gained by altering 39 files in my case, >I noticed another at 50, all done before Winbmd was altered to cope with no >age at death. Adding a '?' > or '*' was the option open to us at the time. Of course we will alter them >if really necessary but they have lasted all this time, and I thought, >perhaps wrongly, that we did not ask people to go back on matters of this >kind. To the best of my knowledge, there was NEVER any official advice offered to use "?" or "*" (or indeed "_" or "-") in this field. This is why we always suggest that if people encounter a difficult situation, they should ask for advice, and NOT just come up with something that seems to work OK. As to asking people to go back. The convention is that where we change the rules, we don't ask people to go back. Where the rules have always been the same, but the software didn't check quite strictly enough, we will ask people to go back. -- Dave Mayall