[NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage

[Grant Hutchinson]

On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Tony Morrow typed vigorously:

> That's good to know I got the notice and assumed it was caused by  
> the one email that went to the mailing list whose entire message was  
> in the subject field. I thought that gmail had blocked it because  
> under normal circumstances subjects are limited to something like  
> 255 characters. You can see the message on in the newtontalk  
> archive. That message may have been what caused all of the problems  
> for the server.

Not sure if Jim's renegade message was the cause of the problem or  
not, but I'll certainly file it away as a possibility. I'm now looking  
in the Mailman settings to see if there's a way to filter those types  
of subject lines in the future.

g.


......................................................................


Grant Hutchinson
NewtonTalk List Dad & Web Custodian

http://splorp.com/newton
http://newtontalk.net
http://newted.org
http://npds.info