Hi there,

Just in case anyone was interested in the email problem I was having.

I finally called our IT guys and if I was hoping for an 'oh yes, you fix that like so...' I was wildly optimistic.  The guy had a good fiddle around but had to get another guy on the case.  After he'd fiddled round for a while he had to resort to getting help.  Whether it was a google search or something else, I'm not quite sure!

Anyway, I *appears* I was in a filter-loop caused by inactive filters (or something) which caused other filters to misbehave and some emails to go in the trash folder and refuse to have their trash label removed.  I think I got bonus marks for having an interesting/non-standard problem that wasn't just user error.

Hopefully someone can reply to this and test the filter out for real!

OB TRAV:

well the obvious, obligatory Traveller reference is of course the adventure: Exit Visa.

Alternatively:

The PCs are trawling out to the Jump point when the astrogation computer gets in a loop and plots a Jump to the system the PCs are currently in.  Changing the destination world only results in it resetting to the current system.  Deleting the program and starting over results in the same behaviour.  Deleting an old Library Data program (entirely unrelated), fixes the problem.

1-2) or does it?

3) as above but the PCs are not aware of the glitch until they've spent a week in Jump and arrive in the system they've just left

4) as 2) but four or five days out from the main world

5) as 2) but a few hours after arrival in the still current system, the ship goes into Jump again and a week later they're back in the same system.  There's no explanation as to how that happened with no fuel.  But it's a one off curiousity of interest to scientists and few others.

6) as 5 but the loop is infinite.  The glitch is nothing to do with software but some fault with Jumpspace itself.

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