Replies to post #13413 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I can't remember now when I put that in, so can't say when the outage was. One of the first times I didn't log a change to the BOWIE board, and I wish I had.

I can't say for certain if PM's went through. However, I can say with 100% certainty that if you didn't get an error message when you sent a PM, you didn't try to send a PM during the time it was broken and your PM's made it.

Whether or not PM's were getting through during the error condition depends on how IIS handles source code. I used to know this, but don't remember now. If it compiles routines before executing them, the PM's wouldn't have gotten through because the error was a syntax error, which would've been trapped during compile.

If IIS processes each line of code separately before moving on to the next (no compiling or pre-checking), then PM's would've made it because the syntax error was where Inbox counts are updated, which happens after the message is submitted.

I vaguely remember believing that IIS translates each line of source code on the fly, but just as vaguely remember encountering a situation that "proved" to me that that wasn't really the case.

In any event, if you didn't see an error message, your PM's made it.