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Re: I need to vent some steam

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On 2015-03-09, Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:16:41 +0000 (UTC)
> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
>> You mean the N/A was literally marshaled as a value in that silly
>> slash-delimited format, with no escaping, thus screwing the syntax?
>
>  Yes. And that airport reminds me of brainfart #4:
>
>  IATA fallback-tags. A proper IATA bag tag is a 10-digit number starting
> with 1. All others are designated as fallback, subject to local
> interpretation. At the same airport, a regional carrier had the habit of
> using the same fallback on each and every bag. That was all fine, because
> the fallback tag got rerouted to a manual handling station, where the
> destination would be entered. Until the day, where the Ops people noted that
> it would be an improvement "If a manually coded FB tag could be entered in
> the system, so the operators at [other terminal] don't have to code it
> again." And thus, one day all luggage for people travelling with said local
> carrier was rerouted to Kinshasa.

Lucky then that the carrier used the same fallback tag, or else the baggage
might have been split up into multiple wrong destinations based on different
local interpretations of different fallback tags at [other terminal].

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I need to vent some steam Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> - 2015-03-05 17:01 +0100
  Re: I need to vent some steam Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-03-05 10:32 -0600
  Re: I need to vent some steam Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-05 17:04 +0000
    Re: I need to vent some steam Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-03-05 17:42 +0000
    Re: I need to vent some steam glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-05 19:16 +0000
      Re: I need to vent some steam jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-05 20:47 +0100
    Re: I need to vent some steam Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> - 2015-03-05 20:52 +0100
    Re: I need to vent some steam Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-05 22:20 +0000
  Re: I need to vent some steam Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-03-05 17:51 +0000
  Re: I need to vent some steam Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-05 22:20 +0000
  Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-05 23:14 -0800
    Re: I need to vent some steam Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-06 10:41 +0000
      Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-06 08:03 -0800
        Re: I need to vent some steam Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-06 16:50 +0000
          Re: I need to vent some steam Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-06 15:32 -0800
          Re: I need to vent some steam Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2015-03-07 07:59 -0800
            Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-07 16:22 -0800
              Re: I need to vent some steam James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-07 19:45 -0500
                Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-07 17:21 -0800
                Re: I need to vent some steam Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-08 10:29 +0000
                Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-08 13:37 -0700
          Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-07 16:20 -0800
        Re: I need to vent some steam Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> - 2015-03-06 17:54 +0100
          Re: I need to vent some steam Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-06 09:58 -0800
    Re: I need to vent some steam Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-03-07 02:29 -0600
      Re: I need to vent some steam Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-03-07 11:01 +0000
      Re: I need to vent some steam Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-24 10:46 -0700
  Re: I need to vent some steam Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-03-06 08:34 -0500
    Re: I need to vent some steam Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-03-06 08:17 -0600
      Re: I need to vent some steam Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-06 08:02 -0800
      Re: I need to vent some steam Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-03-06 22:38 -0500
    Re: I need to vent some steam Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-06 15:44 -0800
      Re: I need to vent some steam Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-07 13:35 +1300
  Re: I need to vent some steam Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-07 07:42 +1300
  Re: I need to vent some steam raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-03-06 22:51 +0000
  Re: I need to vent some steam Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2015-03-06 16:48 -0800
  Re: I need to vent some steam Xcott Craver <xcottcraver@gmail.com> - 2015-03-09 08:52 -0700
    Re: I need to vent some steam Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> - 2015-03-09 21:11 +0100
      Re: I need to vent some steam Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-09 20:16 +0000
        Re: I need to vent some steam Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@geostat.dk> - 2015-03-09 21:38 +0100
          Re: I need to vent some steam Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-09 20:54 +0000
            Re: I need to vent some steam David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-03-10 09:02 +0100
              Re: I need to vent some steam Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-10 05:34 -0500
        Re: I need to vent some steam Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-09 19:15 -0500
      Re: I need to vent some steam Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-10 07:55 -0700

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