Bruce,

My hat is off to your hard work to keep lists like this running.  I
know that I (and I'm sure many others) appreciate the huge brain trust
that has come together here.  

Thanks and keep up the good work!!!

Stephen

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Folks -- 
 
I have good news and bad news. ;-)  First the good news: 
 
Several people had mentioned that they've sent messages to some lists
but have not seen the posts arrive back to them.  These messages DID
appear in the archives though.  This started roughly 12-Jan-2004.  I had
previously researched this issue but could find no reason for it
happening, nor a solution.  Up until today, that is. 
 
The cuplrit was one of my load balancers for mailing list traffic.  It
was handling traffic correctly on some of the machines, but squirreling
away messages sent to one specific server.  I'd estimate about 1/8th of
the messages sent to mailing lists since 12-Jan-2004 were not
redistributed properly.  I have since found and fixed the problem, so
this shouldn't happen in the future.  I suspect I was only able to
re-send a portion of the missing messages, so my apologies for anyone
who posted a message that didn't make it to a list.  Also, my apologies
to everyone who has to deal with the increased traffic of the old
messages, plus current messages, plus the inevitable onslaught of
re-posts that will occur in the next few days.  Please be patient with
each other. 
 
So the good news was: problem found, problem fixed, some catch up done,
shouldn't happen again. 
 
The bad news is that this morning (roughly 7am PST), a construction
crew near Fat City cut through a section of telecom cable that was
critical for our connection to the net.  They've been working feverishly
on it all day, but Fat City was off the net most of the day.  Until
about 3pm PST.  I believe things are about back to normal right now, but
there's always a ramp-up time to truly get back to normal.  My apologies
to anyone who was affected by our downtime. 
 
If you have any questions or concerns about anything, please let me
know. 
 
Thanks, 
Bruce Bergman 
ListMaster, Fat City Hosting 

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