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Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > I'm glad that worked, but, um, well, let me back pedal a little bit. I > > should have thought this through further. > > Uh oh. > > > Caveat #1: If products are being ingested under a 'false' feedtype, this > > will cause problems if you're propagating them. The NMC2 name is now > > being used for the CONDUIT data, which is not currently being > > propagated. But when that occurs there will be confusion. > > OK. Would NMC3 work? NMC3 is FNEXRAD, which is indeed being propagated now. It's moderately popular. Of the two, for the time being NMC2 is probably better. > > > Caveat #2: If you and/or your upstream site are sending statistics (and > > we hope that you are), this will skew the statistics. Is there a lot of > > data on this feed? If it's small it's no big deal, but if it's large, > > it could be a problem for us. > > No, it is small. NWWS is a 9600 baud feed. :-) > OK. > > Generally, sending stuff under false feedtypes like this is not > > recommended (even though I just did that with you!) An alternative is > > for your upstream site to make what is a very simple change to pqing. > > Obviously they would need to rebuild the software, and remember to make > > the change every time they upgrade. If they would like to do this, let > > me know and I'll give them the change. > > Uh, that would be a bad thing. HOWEVER... > > In October, the NWWS PILs go away anyway, so...it won't matter, we can > flip it to NWWS then. > Sorry - I don't understand this. What do you mean? > > So, I realize now that I must urge you not to propagate these products. > > Believe me, I won't. > Thanks. As long as this is between just you and your upstream site and you can handle getting mixed up feeds, I don't see a problem. But, is your upstream site propagating it elsewhere? Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************