[vsnet-grb 58486] Missing pager/cellphone Notices fixed

[Bacodine]

TO:  All Pager/Cellphone GCN Sites                              01 Nov 07
RE:  Missing emails to your pagers/cellphones


WHO:
If you are not a pager or cellphone recipient site, you can delete now.

THE PROBLEM:
The pager & cellphone recipinets did NOT get their notices for the
last two bursts (071028 an 071101) because of an error in the GCN system.

I introduced an error into the alias-definition list used by 'Mail'.
Mail uses this list to find the true address specifications for those emails.
I typed in "Alias" instead of "alias" and this error resulted in Mail
ignoring all the alias definitions after the offending line.  Which, as bad luck
would have it, was nearly all the cellphone/pager recipients.

This error did not effect the sites that get the full-format emails (and obviously
not the socket-sites either), because those are sent out using 'mutt' (not 'Mail').
The change from 'Mail' to 'mutt' for full-format was made when Swift was added to GCN
because Swift needed attachment capability (for the lightcurves, images, spectra).
Mutt is more forgiving of illegal commands in the alias file.  It reads past
the offending line and will find/use the alias definitions after it to get the one
it needs for the current email to be sent.

I have fixed the offending error.

I apologise for the loss of the pager/cellphone notices for these two recent bursts.

Sincerely,
Scott


Scott Barthelmy                      NASA-GSFC, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD   20771
PHONE:  301-286-3106                 (office)
PHONE:  301-346-3733                 (cell)
FAX:    301-286-1684                 (1st choice,  -1682 2nd choice)
EMAIL:  scott at lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov
PAGER:  3013463733 at cingularme.com
WEB:    http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn


FOOTNOTE:
If you are wondering why all the pager/cellphone entries have aliases for their
"address" in the sites.cfg file, it is that why for privacy & spam protection.
The plain-text address used to be directly included in the sites.cfg file,
but it became apparent that having the plain-test phone number in a public file
was not always desirable.  People could find those numbers.  And even worse,
spammers and tele-marketers could/were finding those numbers.  So I took them out
of the plain-text public sites.cfg file, and used aliases (for which the alias
definition file is not made publically available).


/////////////////////////////// Your Current Configuration ////////////////////////////////


Site_name: VSNET
Lon,Lat=  135.75   35.00
Distribution_method: EMAIL  Attachment_format: NONE
Address: vsnet-grb at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp   
Filter:  ALL
Error_limit=   360.100 [deg, diameter]
Delta_T_limit= 999.900 [hr]
Swift_Trigger_ID_filter:   Disabled
Sources & Notice Types/Subtypes:
    RXTE-PCA_Alert_wont:      Enabled
    RXTE-PCA_Alert_will:      Enabled
    RXTE-PCA_nosaw:           Enabled
    RXTE-PCA_saw:             Enabled
    RXTE-ASM:                 Enabled
    IPN_POS:                  Enabled
    ALEXIS:                   Enabled
    RXTE-ASM_TRANS:           Enabled
    HETE_S/C_ALERT:           Enabled
    HETE_S/C_UPDATE:          Enabled
    HETE_S/C_LAST:            Enabled
    HETE_GND_ANA:             Enabled
    HETE_TEST:                Disabled
    TYPE2_TEST:               Disabled
    INTEGRAL_Test_notices:    Disabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_TEST:       Disabled
    AGILE_GRB_TEST:           Disabled
    GLAST_GBM_TEST:           Disabled
    GLAST_LAT_TEST:           Disabled
    INTEGRAL_POINTDIR:        Disabled
    INTEGRAL_SPIACS:          Enabled
    INTEGRAL_WAKEUP:          Enabled
    INTEGRAL_REFINED:         Enabled
    INTEGRAL_OFFLINE:         Enabled
    GRB_CNTRPART:             Disabled
    MILAGRO_POS:              Disabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_ALERT:      enabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS:        enabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_NACK:   enabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LIGHTCURVE: enabled
    SWIFT_FOM_2OBS:           enabled
    SWIFT_SC_2SLEW:           enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_POS:            enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_POS_NACK:       enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_SPECTRUM:       enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_IMAGE:          enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_LIGHTCURVE:     enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_IMAGE:         enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_SRCLIST:       enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_POS:           enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_POS_NACK:      Disabled
    SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LC_PROC:    enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_SPECTRUM_PROC:  enabled
    SWIFT_XRT_IMAGE_PROC:     enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_IMAGE_PROC:    enabled
    SWIFT_UVOT_SRCLIST_PROC:  enabled
    SWIFT_FULL_DATA_INIT:     enabled
    SWIFT_FULL_DATA_UPDATE:   enabled
    SWIFT_POINTDIR:           enabled
    SWIFT_BAT_TRANS:          Disabled


When requesting changes to your configuration,
it helps if you refer to your site_name.