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- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:02:34 -0500
Sometime last evening, we started experiencing large delays in mail delivery due to volume, and many of you noticed posts to mailing lists not going through. We had one FreeLists list owner who had stuffed the mail queues with utter garbage, thereby backing up everything that followed it. A large mail queue is actually somewhat common (and usually not too problematic), but in this case, mail looping was also involved from external, badly-behaving MTAs. To compound the problem, no one here noticed that anything was wrong until this morning. (There we were, thinking the drop-off in traffic was just the typical Friday night slowdown.) We've cleaned out the garbage and mail is flowing as usual. If you're still having problems, please let me know. From now on, we'll be notified when the mail queue starts getting large so that we can investigate further before the back-up gets to be a problem. Thanks, John -- # John Madden weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx # MailandFiles.com: Your mail, your files: http://www.mailandfiles.com # FreeLists: Free mailing lists for all: //www.freelists.org # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free! =========================================================== The FreeLists-Users mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/freelists-users Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ===========================================================
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