Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:37:07 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: ken@plutotech.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dropped of the lists, *AGAIN* Message-ID: <XFMail.980717213707.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199807172027.NAA21116@kithrup.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 17-Jul-98 Sean Eric Fagan wrote: >> I can't speak for jmb, since I have no idea why you've gotten >>bumped off the lists. However, I can speak as the administrator of about >>15 different mailing lists. > > Right, I"ve *NEVER* run large mailing lists, I have *NO* idea what it's like. > (He said sarcastically.) > > My current netconnection is considerably better and more reliable than Walnut > Creek's (not counting ftp.cdrom.com -- if I wanted better connectivity than > that machine, it would cost me a couple hundred a month). I had a brief > period of problems, three days, when my ISP died, but I wasn't removed then-- > I was still getting messages until the middle of last week. > I too was un-subscribed from all the lists sometime overnight (UK time) on 8th or 9th of July. >> I would just ask jmb(@FreeBSD.ORG) why you've been removed from >>the lists. He's the postmaster, and he may remember why he removed you. > > What makes you thnnk I hadn't? > > He said something about a fibre cut, and when it was restored, lots of mail > came flooding in, and caused file corruption. And files were truncated. "i > believe that a number of files. that the files truncated were the files that > store the list of subscribers." > > So why weren't the files restored from backup? Why wasn't a note sent to the > various lists to try to find people who were affected? Why is the first time > I've heard about this file corruption, which should have affected lots of > people, more than a week after I was removed rom lists? Ditto. Fortunately for me, FreeBSD is a hobby but as I can appreciate the hassle that is causes people you need the lists to make money. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.980717213707.dmlb>