Since Peter Kirk wrote, on the Unicode list, I'll CC the list. Peter Kirk wrote:
> I sent several messages to the list between 16:20 and 16:30 GMT > which were simply lost. You are wrong. They were not lost -- at least not on this server. Check the archives. (OK, I've had some config trouble with bringing up the new real-time archives, but your messages are there, and you can check them. I can't guarantee that everything that left *your* machine arrived here, but everything that arrived here is in the archives.) I am certain that everything which *arrived* at the Unicode.org server was *delivered* into the mail list process. (What happens after stuff leaves this machine for downstream delivery is someone else's problem.) > These were therefore sent some time before the > announced time of the list being closed down - timing which I chose > deliberately. This is not an acceptable way to manage a list server. Thank you for your concern, but, I know what I'm doing. Everything was properly shut down and the outgoing queue drained appropriately. > You should refuse to accept messages which you are unable to > deliver so that they are queued for retransmission when the server > comes up again. If you want to talk about how the lists are managed, please don't do it on this list. It's off-topic. Anyway, there was nothing to queue for re-transmission. Incoming mail acceptance was turned off at an appropriate juncture, and the outbound queue allowed to drain. Rick