mispelling MED may cost you important mmail

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mispelling MED may cost you important mmail

Postby kanenan » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:33 am

sa just typed mde as typo and poofed an important message. that'll learn me.
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Postby Ambar » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:39 am

gsay ..

i have missed bids (almost) by sending the leaders alt a mbid instead of the guy he was on as

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Postby kanenan » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:00 am

so what i mean is could mdel please only work if you type MDE 1 for example?
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Postby Ambar » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:17 pm

simple fix, tho .. if you use zmud .. alias mde to med

im the typo queen ... i have to alias EVERYTHING

#al {mde} {med}
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Postby Shar » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:28 pm

Hi. Mde does not work without a specified number within the index. I've tested and retested it. :) if you deleted a message, you had to have typed in a number. *comfort*
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Postby kiryan » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:43 pm

agree with shar.

i mistype mde all the time and get the "message successfully deleted" but I have yet to actually see a message be deleted.

funny it never occured to me to suggest that they change the message to an error.
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Postby kanenan » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:32 pm

how true, i freeked after i saw the message, and then i wasnt sure, becasue i didnt know if i had or not deleted anything, i guess i didnt then.. thank god :)
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Postby Gura » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:02 am

but it was an important message you didnt delete.
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Postby Ragorn » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:30 am

Ever type "no" when you're trying to nod, only to watch yourself run NORTH into certain death?
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Postby Sarell » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:55 am

never.... but i have trying to 'nog' several times.... :9 *grins* ... um hi thrym!
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Postby Eilorn » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:13 pm

When I was a young elf, on my first char, I was grouped with a couple other young elves. We were leaving the Faerie Forest, and passing Finn. One member of the group, meaning to type 'Hi Finn, left off the single quote, leading to a swift death.

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Postby Lirela » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:55 pm

It always happens at the worst possible moment... ever mistyped nod and gotten nos instead? How embarrassing.
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Postby Ambar » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:04 pm

so there we were in jot .. I was on as Ambar

for some reason or other i aliased *k* as kill not kiss ..

k planetar instead of l planetar

oops
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Postby Crumar » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:27 am

Ambar wrote:so there we were in jot .. I was on as Ambar

for some reason or other i aliased *k* as kill not kiss ..

k planetar instead of l planetar

oops


Its even worse when you do that as a warrior when you walk into a battle *grumble*
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Postby selerial » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:25 pm

I think a couple of points (one directly, one indirectly) have been brought up which weren't completely spelled out before, so to indulge myself..

I've noticed that there is some sort of a list reordering that goes on with various things in the mud. Specifically, inventory and mmails seem to get re(verse)-ordered after logins, and perhaps after certain amounts of time. I don't know if kane really deleted his mmail or if he's just missing it because it's now message 32 when it used to be message 1, but if I had to guess, I think that's what he was really seeing. I've always wondered if there was some purpose to this, if it was a feature, or a bug. As far as design goes, I'd think that having both a static inventory and a static mmail list would make more sense than one that gets reversed after you cough too many times (or even if it's just login/logout). That's the indirectly brought up point.

The directly brought up point is the error messages, or lack thereof, with the mmail system. I've accidentally typed "mwrite bid [item]" and it replied that the message was successfully sent. Not having access to the pfiles, I can't say whether or not "bid" is really a character, but I'm guessing it is not, and I might have caught my faux pas if I was informed that the mmail had, in fact, not been sent to anyone at all. Given Kane's lack of error message, it appears as though the various parts of the system may all be lacking in appropriate error checks regarding garbage user data being thrown at it.

Anyways, for the most part mmail works fine, and frankly there are probably other projects I'd rather see implemented much sooner than checks to see if there's an "ebkac" when people use mmail. The reverse ordering thing I'm pretty curious about though..

Edit: woops, replaced angle brackets < with square braces [.
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Postby Shar » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:56 pm

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Postby Lirela » Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:55 am

I wonder how much mail he has...

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Postby kiryan » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:37 am

Ambar wrote:so there we were in jot .. I was on as Ambar

for some reason or other i aliased *k* as kill not kiss ..

k planetar instead of l planetar

oops


I was there!

i think
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Postby Ambar » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:46 am

kiryan wrote:
Ambar wrote:so there we were in jot .. I was on as Ambar

for some reason or other i aliased *k* as kill not kiss ..

k planetar instead of l planetar

oops


I was there!

i think


you probably were :P

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