[NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage

[J.M. Heinrichs]

"Rare Female User"
... which is good, because 'well-done' would be dried out and tasteless.

Cheers
John
 minicapt1 at mac.com

On 13 Sep 11, at 17:00, S.T. Woodrow wrote:

> Yes. Thank you.
> 
> Rare Female User
> Boston
> 
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:58 PM, newtontalk-request at newtontalk.net 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
>> 
>> http://splorp.com/newton
>> http://newtontalk.net
>> http://newted.org
>> http://npds.info
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:52:56 -0700
>> From: Laurence W Brown <lwb at mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage
>> To: "newtontalk at newtontalk.net" <newtontalk at newtontalk.net>
>> Message-ID: <AC3F0294-F7C1-47BF-8691-9EF13CCE1DCC at mac.com>
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>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Sent from my 2Pad?
>> 
>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 15:48, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:
> 
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