Re: Mailing List Problems and Status

[Tim Visher]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Problem: The mailing list has been flooded with hundreds of old messages.
>
> Reason: Apparently a mail server (which I won't name but you can look
> at the messages and figure it out) had been configured as a mail
> gateway.  Apparently it hasn't been delivering those messages but has
> been saving them up.  Or perhaps a backup was recently restored.  I do
> not have that information.  But in any case that has today has dumped
> 40,000+ messages for many different mailing lists including this one
> into the lists.gnu.org machine.
>
> The huge influx of mail has caused normal operations of new mail to be
> very slow.  Normal correspondence has significantly delayed.
>
> The help-gnu-emacs and info-gnus-english lists have been hit the
> hardest with hundreds of messages in the queue for delivery.
>
> At this point I don't think there is anything to be done except to
> wait for the queues to drain.  After the queues drain then things
> should return to normal
>
> Bob
> With mailing list moderator, spam fighter and listhelper hat on.

Thanks so much for the update!

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Timmy V.

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