I am with Ilya. I am not facing any problems from last one month. :-) Prem -----Original Message----- From: Sterin, Ilya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:36 PM To: 'Edward J. Sabol '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: RE: Anyone else experiencing problems with the dbi-* mailing list s? Haven't had a problem, get many email a day from dbi-users, might want to check you mail server, since I had a mail account before where the server would for some reason or another loose messages. Ilya Sterin -----Original Message----- From: Edward J. Sabol To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/7/01 2:18 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
