Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/12/2012 05:50 PM, Todd Littlefield wrote: On 12/12/2012 10:09 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, t.littlefi...@comcast.net mailto:t.littlefi...@comcast.net wrote: True... but I always thought it was a massive faux pas for a SysAdmin to actually admit it

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Todd Littlefield t.littlefi...@comcast.net wrote: No, a sysadmin should never cover up mistakes. Agreed... I was just making a joke. FWIW, I got it, and I chuckled. :-) Keeping a volunteer project running is a major (and usually thankless) job. So, my

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-12 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, t.littlefi...@comcast.net wrote: True... but I always thought it was a massive faux pas for a SysAdmin to actually admit it was his mistake. It's never the admin's fault, some user did something bad. I'm sure if Ben reviewed the logs closely enough, he could

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-12 Thread Todd Littlefield
On 12/12/2012 10:09 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, t.littlefi...@comcast.net mailto:t.littlefi...@comcast.net wrote: True... but I always thought it was a massive faux pas for a SysAdmin to actually admit it was his mistake. It's never the admin's fault,

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:17 -0500, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? I'm on GMail. Yes and no. I got some as far back as 11/15. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Bayard Coolidge
Hampshire LUG gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:16 AM Subject: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:17 -0500, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once?   I'm on GMail. Yes and no. I got

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Hardy
: Delayed mail from GNHLUG? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:17 -0500, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? I'm on GMail. Yes and no. I got some as far back as 11/15. ___ gnhlug

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:41:20 -0500, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: Same here yesterday morning for an hour or so; Gmail crashed as did Chrome. It was on their end and made the news. My delay was non-gmail related as you can see by my address. In any case, an error for an hour

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? There was an issue[1] with the GNHLUG Internet server. Mail was being queued for the list server to process, but wasn't going any further. Once the

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Roger H. Goun
Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com wrote: Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. We all know that it's just a conspiracy, and the emails being held where *actually*

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread David Hardy
With all due respect to other nerds on this list, from what I have seen of Ben's information and help over twelve years entitles him to endless nerd points. He gets a permanent free pass. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com wrote: Fortunately, the nerd points that

Fwd: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
The great part is that some users actually noticed that something got fixed! (I've had systems where the users hadn't noticed that something was wrong and simply ignored the fact they weren't getting email because (almost literally) the magic smoke quit working. Now if only the users (and I'm

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Carl Helmers
I noticed the same phenomenon David. I join you in appreciation of Ben's nerd points accumulated over the years... Merry Solstice, Ben, Dave, et al Live long and prosper ...Carl Helmers www.helmers.com On 12/11/2012 10:22 AM, David Hardy wrote: With all due respect to other

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread t . littlefield
someone on the list! Kudos Ben! - Todd - Original Message - From: David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com To: Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com Cc: Greater New Hampshire LUG gnhlug-disc...@gnhlug.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:22:58 AM Subject: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG? With all due

Re: Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote: The great part is that some users actually noticed that something got fixed! Even better, someone reported the problem! My thanks to the problem-reporter. Ben: I presume all you had to do was to restart the MTA?

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
Thanks for the compliments, folks. :) -- Ben (just another Linux hacker) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/