Re: DIS: lists were briefly down
> On Aug 26, 2020, at 2:15 AM, ais523 via agora-discussion > wrote: > > (I have been > known to do this for Agoran scams in the past…) You're the one that keeps breaking my email parsing scripts with "some time near the end of July", aren't you? Gaelan
Re: DIS: lists were briefly down
On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 20:22 -0400, ATMunn via agora-discussion wrote: > On 8/25/2020 8:12 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > > The lists were down for about four hours total. > > aw man, i had a brilliant, genius, unstoppable scam that i did during > that time and only could have done during that time, guess nobody will > ever know what it is now... > > (/s obviously) Unless you hand-delivered your scam email for some reason (I have been known to do this for Agoran scams in the past...), it would still end up appearing at the lists eventually. Email was designed in a time of unreliable and slow connections; each of the email relays along the route will try for quite some time to get the message through if the recipient relay appears to be down or disconnected (as opposed to intentionally refusing the email). And (especially in this age of spam) almost every legitimate email starts off by being sent to the sender's relay, which then relays it to the recipient's. There have been multiple occasions on which I've sent an email, and had a bounce email from my email relay, two weeks later, explaining that it's spent all this time trying to deliver the email but the destination server was down all that time. -- ais523
Re: DIS: lists were briefly down
On 8/25/2020 8:12 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: The lists were down for about four hours total. The VPS hosting the lists was forcibly shut off due to non-payment (I missed the email with the invoice). I happened to be actively checking my emails at the time, so I noticed and paid within half an hour, but then the VPS failed to start back up because of an fsck error, and I didn’t notice that until now. Should be good now; hope that error wasn't anything serious... ;) - The Distributor aw man, i had a brilliant, genius, unstoppable scam that i did during that time and only could have done during that time, guess nobody will ever know what it is now... (/s obviously) -- ATMunn friendly neighborhood notary and Speaker of Agora :)
DIS: lists were briefly down
The lists were down for about four hours total. The VPS hosting the lists was forcibly shut off due to non-payment (I missed the email with the invoice). I happened to be actively checking my emails at the time, so I noticed and paid within half an hour, but then the VPS failed to start back up because of an fsck error, and I didn’t notice that until now. Should be good now; hope that error wasn't anything serious... ;) - The Distributor
