WRGPT Floorman's Log
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Server outage / table corruption
The WRGPT server is a virtual private server. The hardware running the server went down without warning early Sunday morning (1/31/2010).
It appears that several tables were corrupted by the sudden outage. The tables found are being corrected. The rest are being checked.
During this time timeouts will be disabled in case your table had an issue.
Please continue to play normally if your table allows and protest if your table does not allow so that the problem will be noticed.
We hope to have everything back to normal by the end of the day Monday.
Thanks for your understanding. Good luck in the remainder of WRGPT19.
Slow email to yahoo.com
Email is being temporarily deferred to yahoo.com, most likely due to someone reporting email from the dealer as spam. When you are eliminated and no longer wish to receive email, please send the command READ NONE to the dealer to stop receiving email. If you do nothing, you will stop receiving email when your table is part of a redraw or the round ends.
For those that have only one email address at yahoo.com, you can add another email address with the ADDR command.
e.g.:
ADDR email1@domain1.com,email2@domain2.com
Changing Your E-MAIL Address
For those that have only one email address at yahoo.com, you can add another email address with the ADDR command.
e.g.:
ADDR email1@domain1.com,email2@domain2.com
Changing Your E-MAIL Address
Second round starting issues
There were two problems found in starting the second round of WRGPT19.
First, the automated redraw did not kick off due to an error in the automated checking script. This meant that the round "c" started a few hours later than it otherwise would have.
Second, the railbird email address was incorrect due to a change made in testing the new server. This caused the first day and a half of hands to not be sent to the railbird list. These hands are online and can be seen via the hands.wrgpt.org site.
Both of these issues have been corrected and will function correctly for the end of the second round.
First round of WRGPT19 ending
The first round of WRGPT19 is coming to a close. All tables will finish their current hand then wait for the rest of the tables to finish. Once all tables have finished then all the remaining players will be redrawn randomly onto new tables.
Removing players that never showed up
About 30 players signed up for WRGPT19 and did now show up.
Most of these have been removed from the tourney with the rest to be removed over the next few days.
Because of the high number of No Shows we extended the live redraw window for the first round so that the removal of these non-players does not cause the complete, full redraw that would normally occur after 30 days of a round.
Server was down tonight
The WRGPT server was down earlier tonight from 18:39 to 20:54.
Timeouts have been disabled to allow mail that may have been incoming and stuck on the sending server to catch up.
WRGPT19 Starting NOW!
The 19th annual World Rec.Gambling Poker Tourney is starting NOW!
If you have registered correctly you should be receiving your initial message and new ID within the next hour or so. You will need to reply BACK to that message to come off of vacation.
Once everyone on your table comes back from vacation OR 24 hours pass your table will start the first hand.
Good luck.
Remember to read the friendly manual (RTFM) at:
http://www.wrgpt.org/manual.html
Notes on the start of the real tournament
When
the real tournament starts, you will receive a new ID. Reply BACK to
the "Start of Game" message to play. "No Shows" will be removed after
30 days. Your practice round ID, which starts with a "p", will no
longer be valid so do not use it in the real tournament.
Please remember that changes made to email addresses and start times during the practice round will not carry over to the real tournament. You can change them with the ADDR and START commands after the tournament starts. Your current settings can be viewed with the WHAT command.
Good luck.
Please remember that changes made to email addresses and start times during the practice round will not carry over to the real tournament. You can change them with the ADDR and START commands after the tournament starts. Your current settings can be viewed with the WHAT command.
Good luck.
Practice Round almost over, Real tourney starts in a week
We are planning on ending the practice round this Saturday or Sunday in preparation for the real tourney starting on Monday, November 16, 2009.
During the practice round we made several small bug fixes and added formatted email processing. This processor has been tweaked a few times to handle various email formats that we have been receiving. If you are still having problems you should send the floorman an email about the issue and/or check your email application settings to send text only email to the dealer. We don't want to keep changing it once the tourney starts.
Formatted email now accepted
Floorman David Widder has written a mail massager that takes formatted email and removes the formatting so that the dealer will receive the unformatted, text-only email it likes.
It was just installed last night and has been tuned up today from a problem noticed this morning.
Go ahead and send email that is formatted now and see how it works. We would really like to ring any issues out during the practice round.
This is particularly interesting for Blackberry users. It appears that there was a change in the past year for Blackberry's email so that it is sent in base64 by default now. This is total gibberish for the dealer (and email readers that don't handle base64).
Let us know if there are problems.
Remember, the floorman email changes every year to slow spammers and is floorman19 this year instead of floorman18 at the usual address on wrgpt.org.
(Hey, Spammers! No floorman has ever purchased anything from that email you seem to snag each year despite the 100+ emails per day it gets. So, save your bandwidth.)