Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:47:47 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: History of list server problems - Was: [LIB] 95 98 or ME on a 70CT
please?
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From: John Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matthew Hanson...
I notice you reference problems with the server relatively often. I would
be curious to know why you believe Dan's server is messing up? I have not
experienced any failures in more than a year and back then it was repeating
messages. I save all emails from the system and from what I see by looking
at the page, I receive all emails at all times on multiple addresses.
Everything that posts to the system, slow or not, I get at my email
addresses.
Hi John,
I addressed this problem in a recent post. I've been keeping in contact
with Dan about this problem for years now. He has problems with SPAM
clogging up the list server on a regular basis, and then for whatever
reason, the server starts dropping a few registered email addresses here and
there from its subscriber database. So it only affects some list members,
and not others.
I've just been a watchdog for Dan over the years, and am usually the 1st to
notify him when I don't see mail coming into my Hotmail account that's
showing up in the archives. I haven't really discussed the specifics of the
problem with Dan, but I suspect the server software somehow targets mail
from list subscribers with Hotmail and Yahoo email addresses in particular
as being SPAM amongst the zillions of real SPAM addresses from those
services.
I usually get a thanks from him every time I send him a notice, and the same
explanation about SPAM having put a cog in the wheels of the server. Hes
been meaning to set up new software for some time. But with the number of
posts to the list per day/week having dropped to an all time low at this
point, maybe its just not worth it.
Matt
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