On 29/10/2009, at 1:32 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to pop in for a moment to say that you may have noticed a > recent slowdown in list traffic. You're not mistaken-- things are, > indeed, slower 'round these parts. This appears to be in part due to > everyone's favorite parasites: spammers. To quote the Evolt server > sysadmin: > > "In the past couple of weeks, we've been hit by a large number of > spammers which is causing the SMTP server to get overloaded. This > will cause some MTAs on the sender side to decide that lists.evolt.org > is down and, in some cases, does not retry." > > So if you sent mail to the list and it just never showed up, > that's most likely why. The flood of spam is choking off legitimate > traffic. If you sent a message to the list more than a day ago and > didn't get a "message delayed, will try again later" notice, try > sending it again. > Unfortunately, the only things I can suggest are that you keep > copies of all your outgoing messages just in case you need to resend > them, and to be patient. (Both of which I'll be doing with this > message, as it happens!) >
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