telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (03/31/91)
Since Thursday night, I have been dealing with a strange problem here at eecs involving the delivery of the Digest (the mailing list version) to the several hundred names and exploder addresses on the matrix. The problem: they stalled in the queue and wouldn't mail! We had a power outage early Thursday morning which dumped me (and everyone else at eecs) offline in the early morning hours. I was in the middle of editing issue 248. Once I got back on line, the system was sluggish but I got issue 248 into the mailqueue list channel, where it sat, and sat, and sat, all day Thursday and Friday. Or did it? Or was it a 'ghost'? From what I could tell, 'deliver' was not working correctly. Ditto, issues 249, 250, 251, and 252 just sat there in the queue. And with a three day holiday weekend in the offing to boot! Except we Moderators don't take that many three day holiday weekends. Friday night I was able to get issues 248-253 rerouted through a backup site and now most of you have these issues. Some of you have gotten them twice, and some of you still haven't gotten them once. The next several issues may come to you through the backup site or they may come from eecs ... depending. Things should get back to normal soon. If you get duplicates, toss them out and don't bother writing me about it until/unless several issues have arrived and the duplicates / out of numerical order delivery continues. None of the mailing problems here caused any grief with the comp.dcom.telecom feed: it now goes out using my very own nntpxmit to several strategic and well-connected sites around the world where it is deposited directly in the stream of news; the better to reach you in minutes (or seconds!) after it leaves here. PAT