[q-lang-devel] Mailing list problems

[<Dr....@t-...>]

Hi,

you probably noticed that messages sent to the q-lang mailing lists have 
been delayed for some time now. I didn't get a reply to my own support 
request yet, but I've seen the following notice about the ML issues from 
the SourceForge staff on the ggi-develop ML (which had the same 
problems, as did many other projects):

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This is a canned response addressing a sitewide problem with SF.net.

A filesystem issue on our of our list servers has caused a large
backlog of mailing list messages to accumulate, sometimes causing
reported delays of up to 5 days (although most messages were not
impacted significantly).

In some cases, you may have received a warning message from
another SF.net mail server (either sf-mx1 or sf-mx2) that the
message had spent an undue amount of time on the queue while
receiving this error from sf-list1:

421 Unexpected failure, please try later

We believe that this failure was due to heavy load on our mail
servers (and by extenstion, the DNS servers) from the
MyDoom/W32.SCO.* virii.

This problem was fixed and over time, the backlog has been worked
through (as well as the normal mailing list load).  We believe
that we are caught up at this point, although it's possible that
there are a few exceptions.

We deeply regret the inconvenience.

If you are still seeing delays in mailing list messages posted
after 02/05/2004 please let us know by opening a new Support Request.
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Ok, let's hope that this is fixed now...

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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