Hi Ed,You're right compared to a a couple weeks ago . I got a ton of emails
and its substantially fallen off. I see a good number unsubscribing.
Dexter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward J. Sabol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Anyone else experiencing problems with the dbi-* mailing lists?
> Is there a problem with the [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lists? I seem to be experiencing sporadic
> delivery problems.
>
> Recently, I noticed that I haven't received a single e-mail from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] since May 11th or [EMAIL PROTECTED] since May 4th.
Both
> of those are low-volume mailing lists, so that's somewhat plausible.
However,
> although I have received e-mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED], I noticed that
the
> volume of posts that I have received has dropped drastically. For example,
> between May 22nd and June 1st, I received *one* e-mail from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, there has been some improvement, but it's
> still a trickle compared to what the volume was just a couple months ago.
And
> the e-mails I do receive from [EMAIL PROTECTED] often refer to e-mails
that
> I haven't received.
>
> At first, I thought maybe I had been unsubscribed from dbi-announce and/or
> dbi-dev, so I sent e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I
received
> no response from the list server. I also tried to send e-mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and didn't get any response there either. Next
I
> tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again no response. The e-mail I sent to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone unanswered for two days as well.
>
> So I decided to check the mailing list archives to see what's going on.
> <http://lists.perl.org/> referred me to the mailing list archives at
> <http://archive.develooper.com/>, but I couldn't access that web site at
all.
> No response at all to my HTTP connections.
>
> Next, I checked the DBI home page at <http://dbi.symbolstone.org/>. It has
> links to two other mailing list archives: One at
> <http://outside.organic.com/mail-archives/dbi-users/> and another one at
> <http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/PerlDB-Interest>. But
I
> couldn't get a response from outside.organic.com either! Fortunately, the
> fine folks at MPE have figured out how to correctly administer a web site.
>
> I also checked my old dbi-* e-mails and found a link to a mailing list
> archive at <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=perl-dbi>. I was able to
access
> that site as well.
>
> Comparing the mailing list archive at theaimsgroup.com with the mailing
list
> at MPE, the MPE archive seems to be complete, but theaimsgroup.com archive
is
> missing e-mails that the MPE archive has received. It's also missing
e-mails
> that I've received. Both the MPE archive and theaimsgroup.com archive
contain
> lots of e-mails that I haven't received. MPE has archived 242 dbi-users
> e-mails in the month of June, theaimsgroup.com has archived 22, and I've
> received even less than that.
>
> I'm subscribed to a dozen mailing lists from places other than perl.org
and
> I'm receiving e-mail from all of these other lists just fine, so I don't
> think it's a problem with my machine. My workstation has been turned on
and
> connected to the Internet 24/7 for years now, and I've been subscribed to
the
> dbi-* mailing lists since April 1997. Looking at the dbi-users archive at
> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=perl-dbi>, I'm more convinced of that
than
> ever, since they seem to be experiencing the same problem as me.
>
> Anyone have clue what's going on? Anyone else experiencing this? I've
checked
> my mail logs and the e-mails just aren't getting here. I wonder if maybe
> lists.perl.org has bitten off more than it can chew. Perhaps at various
times
> their load becomes so high that sendmail processes are being terminated
> before they finish propagating an e-mail to all the members of the mailing
> list?
>
> Needless to say, please CC: me on all responses and/or follow-ups. I've
set
> the Reply-To: header on this e-mail accordingly. But I don't trust that
the
> mailing list server will send any e-mails to me. (I estimate that I have a
1
> in 5 chance of receiving a particular dbi-users e-mail from the mailing
list
> server.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
