[NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage

[Laurence W Brown]

Thank you!

Sent from my 2Pad…

On Sep 13, 2011, at 15:48, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:

> Whew.
> 
> It looks like we're back in action again.
> 
> The recent mailing list outage was due to a slightly misconfigured  
> server which runs the mailing list software. Something on the server  
> (completely unrelated to NewtonTalk) caused an inordinate amount of  
> memory to be consumed, affecting the mail delivery services.
> 
> Most of the list members received messages indicating that your  
> membership had been "disabled due to excessive bounces". This error  
> had nothing to do with your email accounts or ISPs. It was due to the  
> mail services being unable to delivery any messages and therefore  
> being interpreted as "bounced" email.
> 
> Bill Shamam and Media Temple helped isolate the problem and we were  
> able to restart the server, unclogging the list.
> 
> My apologies for the inconvenience (and those dumb error messages.)
> 
> 
> g.
> 
> ......................................................................
> 
> 
> Grant Hutchinson
> NewtonTalk List Dad & Web Custodian
> 
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