From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 18:44:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D2A37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner [192.168.0.2]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2D2hUq06573; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:43:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <01f901c0ab67$8911cc00$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrew Hesford" , "Rick Hamell" Cc: "Kevin Brunelle" , References: <3AAD0E7B.E9104187@netzero.net> <20010312203720.A20275@cec.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Mailing list issues. Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:44:27 +1000 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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