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Subject:ADMIN: List Slowdown From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:54:23 -0600
Gang,
The list was pretty slow from Sunday through yesterday,
but I think we're back on track now. Apparently there
was someone (possibly on this list) whose mailer was
corrupting the mail header and returning the message
to the listserv, thus causing a mail loop. They had to
eventually clear out nearly 70,000 messages from the server,
and temporarily disable the Web server to get the problem
fixed.
All should be normal now.
Eric
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