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Re: anonymous coward
by Erik on Tuesday 19/Mar/2002, @10:23
> And how did you work that out when you
> don't know the details of how the map is
> produced?

One does not have to know the details of a system to identify bugs. It is enough to observe it produceing wrong output.

> Almost certainly wrong. The script is an
> extremely simple bit of perl. If it didn't
> work for some of them, it wouldn't work for
> all of them.

Then how come people got their names converted to "anonymous coward" when they asserted afterwards that they did not submit anonymous?
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Re: anonymous coward
by Chris Howells on Wednesday 20/Mar/2002, @13:20
>Then how come people got their names converted to "anonymous coward" when
>they asserted afterwards that they did not submit anonymous?

A slight error in the database (a tab delimtted text file) meant that certain entries didn't have all the necessary fields (probablly caused when I cut and pasted the details from the e-mail). It was interpreting this as meaning that the user wanted to be anonymous. This is fixed now. Thanks for pointing out.
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Re: anonymous coward
by Chris Howells on Wednesday 20/Mar/2002, @13:23
>Then how come people got their names converted to "anonymous coward" when
>they asserted afterwards that they did not submit anonymous?

A slight error in the database (a tab delimtted text file) meant that certain entries didn't have all the necessary fields (probablly caused when I cut and pasted the details from the e-mail). It was interpreting this as meaning that the user wanted to be anonymous. This is fixed now. Thanks for pointing out.
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  • Re: anonymous coward
    by Erik on Saturday 23/Mar/2002, @14:57
    So will the anonymous cowards be removed so that the people can resubmit now when it works?
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