Hello everybody I have been working at an increased pace on our long overdue server platform changes. I am hopeful that they will take place within the next couple of days. However, there is one thing which keeps distracting me from the task in hand, and that is when people opt to leave the group, or to change their subscriber details in one respect or another.
So this is just another gentle reminder, (OK, call it a kick up the rear end if you like). ;-) If you are planning t modify your subscriber options for the group, would you please, please, pretty please, let me know about your intended course of action. Currently, I am having to continually monitor the support address sub-folder where we have such emails routed too so that we know when somebody has left the group, or otherwise changed their subscription options. Soon, very soon I hope, will come the radical changes we’ve been talking about for so many weeks. It has been, and still is in som respects, a massive undertaking because of the horrendous amount of settings, options and consequential database modifications which every single little change of a subscriber necessitates. Our Open Directory database is ill, gravely ill, (I was about to say “Terminally” ill, but that really would be pushing my luck just a bit too far I think. :) But seriously, folks, we’re on the point of implosion on our current server. To be totally fair, it’s been up there by itself, doing its stuff and serving the millions of messages which pass through it each month. That really is no exaggeration, we do see millions of messages each month. The vast majority of them are spam, junk, attempted relay hacks, mail bombs, mailbots and other little nasties. The vast majority of messages are, therefore kicked into touch without us having to do a thing to have that happen. But as I said, we are reaching a point where, one day soon, the database will break and I won’t be able to recover it, as I have so many times in the recent past. My boss at work has asked me to take over a similar duty there because one of the technicians has left as of last week, leaving a hole which they cannot afford to fill just at present. But I am waffling, yet again. So anyway, please do feel free to make these changes to the subscriber pages for your account as you see fit. But if you wouldn’t mind just dropping me a quick lie before you do so, I would be grateful. Thank you, I shall stop there. Kind regards Gordon Smith, Mac Access Dot Net Support and systems specialist. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
