Seems to be working ok this end. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 30 April 2010 23:17 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] list should be normal again
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]. --- 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].
