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Subject: 
Double-mailings -- notice, apology, and fix
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:52:44 GMT
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[Followups set to lugnet.admin.general]


Whoops -- my apologies if you have received a few double-mailings (if you're
subscribed to groups via e-mail).  The news-by-mail gateway is set up as a
cron job activated every 5 minutes.  It wasn't checking whether the previous
batch of mailings finished before launching a new batch, and it wasn't
locking the article-counts-file.  As a temporary workaround, I increased the
cron job time from 5 to 15 minutes.  I'll add some semaphore control and
then drop the time delay back to 5 minutes (maybe less).  Technical details:
There seem to be several .dk, .de, and .au SMTP servers giving the outgoing
mail transfer agent a hard time.  I don't think these slow down connections
to faster sites, however, or clog things beyond a reasonable response time.
(We'll see.)

Anyway, as always, please let me know if you experience any troubles,
including any problems unsubscribing from lugnet.cad.dev via e-mail and
subscribing instead through news.

--Todd



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