Fw: ADMIN: Recent Yahoo glitch

[Neil Ward]

> As a few people have been asking on the main list about the recent
technical
> problems, I'm copying the message I sent to OT Chatter.
>
> It's one of those times when we can't decided between throwing up our
hands
> and tearing out our hair (assuming we have some).
>
> Neil
> Moderator Team
>
>
> <<<<<
> I confess that, being the least techie of the three male moderators, I
> haven't extracted anything sensible out of Yahoo (re-routing, automated
> replies, nowt etc), but Elizabeth kindly forwarded this message from
Yahoo,
> sent to an X-Files list:
>
> "Sometime last night, we had networking problems at our hosting center.
On
> top of this, we had problems with four of our archive servers, which led
to
> the 'archive temporarily unavailable' message for groups on those
machines.
> Mail sent to these groups while the servers were down was queued here, and
> doesn't need to be re-sent.  The above problems had a cascading effect on
> all mail delivery, which is still backed up on the order of two hours.
Some
> machines are less loaded than others though, so your mileage may vary."
>
> This was dated about 3pm (looks like GMT), 2nd May.  Doesn't help our
> withdrawal much, but at least we know it isn't a problem at our end.
>
> Now... form an orderly queue for therapy at the Flying Ford Clinic.  Did I
> mention that I'm putting my prices up...? <evil-g>
>
> Neil
> >>>>>
>
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