Michael:
If someone wanted to contribute by mail, what's the info?
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Billy Cravens
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Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>
> Yep, there were list problems the other day. They've been acting up a bit
> over the last week and I've finally dealt with them (I hope). Here's what's
> happening:
> Doubles - When a message is sent to the list, it is 'duplicated' once for
> each person on the list. If that duplication is stopped in the middle, when
> it is restarted it goes from the beginning. I got 3 copies of a few messages
> myself, so it was a global thing rather than limited to a few individuals.
> Usually its much more limited.
> Speed - The list has been getting a LOT of badly formatted email packets.
> This is really getting to be a pain and I've emailed the up-servers about
> them. We saw this last week with the stoneage email and that was at least
> getting to the list. Other packets are even more deadly. Another speed issue
> is built into security. I altered the list a week or two back to stop ALL
> relaying. This means that posts can go to the list ONLY if the recipient is
> local to House of Fusion or a list. This is a major anti-spam thing. I also
> set blocking for a number of spammers on the server. These combine to give
> the list a bit of a slowdown even of normal posts. If you get a 5-10 minute
> delay in post to receipt, that's why.
> Future - I've looked over IMS and Lyris. I really like IMS but it doesn't
> have a solid listserver package at the moment. I like IMS and would use it
> (and probably will as a mailserver) but can't use if for the list. As such,
> I'm going to try and move over to Lyris. The only problem is that Lyris
> costs $4500 for what we want.
> I'm currently recovering from losing everything in stock and will not be
> able to get this together myself. For this reason, I'm asking any in the
> community who would like to contribute to do so by using Paypal or mail. I'm
> actually going to have a proposal to Allaire about corporate funding for
> Fusion Authority as well, but....
> Paypal can be accessed here:
> https://secure.paypal.x.com/affil/pal=mdinowit%40i-2000.com
> I do apologize for the inconvenience and hope that the plusses of the lists
> outweigh the problems that come up once in a while.
>
> Michael Dinowitz
> Publisher - The Fusion Authority (www.fusionauthority.com/alert)
> ListManager - CF-Talk, CF-Jobs, Spectra-Talk, JRun-Talk, etc.
> (www.houseoffusion.com)
>
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