[NTLK] [ADMIN] The Recent Mailing List Outage

[Joseph Reilly]

I was convinced it was my ISP flagging newtontalk at newtontalk.net for that 350 or so word subject message as spam. Anyway Thanks Grant for getting it sorted.

Joe Reilly

Sent from my iPod Touch

On Sep 13, 2011, at 19:19, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.
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