Hi Paul, There's a small note on: http://www.fsf.org/news/lists
Joshua and Justin came by #savannah and gave information about the current issues: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4322 That's a start. -- Sylvain On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:40:43PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > js> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> I'm sorry to say that, unless there's currently some problem with > >> the mailing list servers that will be cleared up shortly, I think > >> we have to UNDO whatever spam filtering, etc. we currently have > >> installed on lists.gnu.org etc. > >> > >> Why? Because apparently the hardware we have installed is totally > >> incapable of delivering mail in anything close to an acceptable > >> timeframe with this filtering enabled. > > js> My understanding is that this delay is the result of the machine > js> working through its rather large backlog of messages accumulated > js> during the recent downtime, not because of any new spam filtering > js> techniques. So there isn't anything to undo, and things should be > js> getting better. > > Thanks John, that's good to know... does anyone have any idea WHEN > they'll be getting better; how much of the backlog is left to clear and > how quickly is it going through? I tried to login to the mail server > but it won't let me :-). > > As far as I can tell email has been wicked slow for many days now: maybe > as long as week a week or more. It's hard to imagine what kind of > backlog we could accumulate that would account for that. > > Actually I don't remember a downtime recently: are you talking about the > spam blacklisting problem? Or a real server outage of some kind? When > was it and how long did it last? I'm wondering how much downtime it > takes to get our servers into this sorry state...
