FISHER@RPIECS.BITNET ("John S. Fisher") (05/04/89)
On Saturday 29 April 1989 at about 9:16 pm EDT, LISTSERV@RPIECS started rejecting all mail from the mailer at RPICICGE. In actual fact, RPIECS and RPICICGE are physically the same BITNET node--the RPICICGE name is being phased out in favor of RPIECS--so the situation is somewhat embarassing. At any rate, the net effect was that all mail to LISTSERV@RPICICGE was rejected while all mail to LISTSERV@RPIECS was processed per normal (even though the two are one in the same server). The problem went unnoticed until Wednesday morning. LISTSERV and the mailer were forced to kiss-and-make-up, and a huge backlog of rejected mail was transferred back to LISTSERV for processing. ...and now for the plea: If you are still sending requests to LISTSERV at the RPICICGE address, please cease and desist. Use the RPIECS node name instead. That way, your requests won't be delayed if the problem recurs, and also you won't be left in the dark when the RPICICGE node name is discontinued completely. /JSFisher