Hi raul, Thanks for the update. I was wondering if the queue was majorly backed up from all that down time. The message I got from gmail last time I tried to send something seamed to indicate that the message queue was full of undelivered messages.
Cheers! On 4/30/10, Raul A. Gallegos <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all. The short of it is that email on the gamers list should be > trickling back through. This means that you should see messages even > from a few days ago start coming through. Now if you want more technical > details on why and how, read on. Otherwise, keep listing on game related > topics. If you have questions about this, please email > [email protected], not the list. > > What happened is that because we have over 300 members on the list, many > email messages were getting delayed by various email service providers > such as Comcast, Gmail, and Yahoo to name a few. The way Mailman was > configured for this list was so that this would not happen. However due > to the problems over the weekend with the server needing to be rebuilt, > things got set back to defaults. This of course meant that Mailman would > sometimes try to send 100 messages at a time. Breaking it down. If there > are 300 members on a list and 5 people email in 5 minutes, that's a > total of 1500 messages which get sent out. 300 times 5 equals 1500. Now > let's say that there are several Yahoo subscribers. Mailman would bundle > messages to quickly get them there, but Yahoo says, hey now! Don't spam > me with so many messages. So to protect itself, it causes the messages > to either bounce away or to delay for a time. The fix is to make Mailman > not send so many at once, thus insuring a smooth list flow like we are > used to. So now that those things have been configured, mail from now on > should be delivered like what we are used to. However this also means > that some of you may either not get prior messages, or if you do get > them, they will be delayed as the queue clears out by your isp. > > Hopefully things will resume like normal, but if you have any concerns, > definitely let me know. My email address is in this message, or you can > always email [email protected]. > > Many thanks. > > - -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Home page: http://www.RaulGallegos.com > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ragallegos > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL2xB9AAoJEI03mCGDH4e+I10H/1bji6FZ4VoxQTQJSydp4IFu > cVSvkAcGi4iYVdqiS3sdzRL3OXLEo4dSVilyH5AnfT9eMbNHj8FLVnPHiRJWKUiS > MSVQuxlmu9YtcaMqothve/in6WPu1SVkCOzPEzP7/wy6uzQM0yvTRdMcqe8HdVUo > bT0jIbPz2OLUU1dlFHUGldFg8hGBaZ1VpON84MLDmYZO5HW12aC33ZrM8ZqRKuhb > FZZYKca7+9GcoebO58dQ/cInNCc2uF2dzswQBl2FFe3Tv+19tcFj8eit5r+6pi9w > nWKxmPTmjeYQh4xiOLFJAVEaNFPU8m5WE5lKI8PRH211TARsy0x/vyzzmgUD4jI= > =UsMR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
