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Re: contacting me via e-mail
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:28:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> > Last night I found out that the forwarding was broken for a long time yet
> > no one
> > had told me. With help from Dan Boger, I began going through a backlog of
> > old
> > LUGNET e-mail retrieved from the server that didn't get forwarded. There
> > were 24
> > messages to suz(at)lugnet.com. One was from Rene, some were from NELUG, a
> > few
> > were spam, one was from LEGO. But there are something like 900,000
> > messages
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> LUGNET email generally seems to have been broken for a while, including the
> method to validate messages via email:
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=13325 1 March 2006
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=13314 17 Feb 2006
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=13301 30 Jan 2006
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> so maybe some of those 900,000 are connected with that.
That's exactly right.
> I also wonder if that problem has contributed to the posting slowdown -
> previous experience with NNTP outages showed that there are/were a large
> number of people who post via NNTP, and if many of those gave up trying to
> post because email confirmation wasn't working, that would make a big
> difference in the posting rate.
Sure, yeah. [nodding] And that's -horrible- if you ask me! Esp with the
potential for robotics discussion coming up with the release of the NXT sets.
I'm going to open a ticket with Pair Networks' support staff today and try to
get to the bottom of it. The problems all began with a drive crash. I'm afraid
they didn't restore things exactly as they were.
-Suz
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