From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 18:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.sunflower.com (smtp.sunflower.com [24.124.0.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0499C37B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:44:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from treznor@sunflower.com) Received: from treznor (dv016s59.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.59.16]) by smtp.sunflower.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA11324; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:43:58 -0600 Message-ID: <000c01c0ab66$a7172660$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> From: "Tyler K McGeorge" To: "Andrew Hesford" , "Rick Hamell" Cc: "Kevin Brunelle" , References: <3AAD0E7B.E9104187@netzero.net> <20010312203720.A20275@cec.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Mailing list issues. Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:38:13 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was having a conflict with the list myself. Any message I would send would go through, but I would get a message from a mailer daemon along the route that my message would not be delivered. This has stopped, but it was quite confusing for a while. Ty ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Hesford To: Rick Hamell Cc: Kevin Brunelle ; Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Re: Mailing list issues. | 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