[NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage

[S.T. Woodrow]

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: