Re: ADMIN: Status of list server systems (and update about

Bruce,
You are doing a GREAT job keeping the lists running. And you seem to have put in some effort in developing/implementing the "load balancers"
and then again in retrieving the "squirreled-away" emails.

Thanks. We appreciate your work.

Regards
Hemant
At 05:39 PM 19-01-04 -0800, you wrote:
>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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