Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:44:27 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Andrew Hesford" <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: "Kevin Brunelle" <kruptos@netzero.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailing list issues. Message-ID: <01f901c0ab67$8911cc00$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <3AAD0E7B.E9104187@netzero.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103111028110.70534-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20010312203720.A20275@cec.wustl.edu>
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Very rarely either my local mailserver or the remote upstream one is offline (I've got a big UPS here but there isn't one at our POP right now) but its never got me dropped from any list. I have occasionally got 20 or 30 old emails delivered though ... last time was only a few hours ago. > I've had my server down for as much as half a day, I think. This was > during the daytime hours too, which is a fairly busy time for -stable > and -questions. > > I've never been dropped, though. > > On another note, I *have* noticed problems with the mailing lists > lately. Twice in the last few days, I've been getting loads of old > messages, which I'd already read and deleted locally. Is majordomo going > insane, or am I? I hope this happens to other people. > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:30:24AM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > Does anyone know why I would be unsubscribed from all the freebsd > > > mailing lists from time to time. I suddenly stop getting the messages, > > > with no warning or anything. I am using Netzero to accept this mail, for > > > me, and I collect it from them later. If this is not freebsd.org, how > > > would netzero be dropping my lists? I get them back as soon as I > > > resubscribe. This can be really annoying. This last time, it was less > > > than a month before this happened. Any ideas on this? > > > > If for some reason your domain becomes unavailable, the mailing > > lists will automatically drop an email address if a certain number of > > messages bounce back from it. I have no idea what that number is, but I do > > know that with the amount of traffic on this list in paticular, I could be > > dropped with in a period of 8 hours. > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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