Subj : MRC Module
To   : echicken
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 18:15:46

  Re: MRC Module
  By: echicken to DesotoFireflite on Tue Feb 22 2022 08:48 pm

 >   Re: MRC Module
 >   By: DesotoFireflite to echicken on Tue Feb 22 2022 14:10:58
 >
 >  De> get it where it's manageable. I get the folowing error message all the
 >  De> time. Is there a way to fix this, or is a live with condition.
 >
 >  De> Tue Feb 22 13:49:57 2022 master/a8a6ca229
 >  De> srvc 0000 MRC-Connector Invalid MRC line: Biden green-lit it)?~
 >
 > Something is sending lines that don't follow the MRC format. IIRC each line
 > is meant to contain the user name, the BBS name, the channel, the message,
 > and some other stuff, with each of these fields being separated by a ~.
 >
 > Would you guess that these lines are originating from your BBS, or that
 > they're coming in from somewhere else? (Is anyone on your BBS and using MRC
 > when this happens? Are they typing the messages about Biden and the Ukraine
 > or whatever turns up in the log?)
 >
 > It's possible that the protocol has changed since I wrote the client, or I'm
 > not handling multi-line messages properly, or somebody wrote a broken MRC
 > client/bot/whatever that's generating bad messages. Hard to say.

Does it barf if a user sends a message containing a '~' character maybe?
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