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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>

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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
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Duncan Barclay          | God smiles upon the little children,
dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned.
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