Egroups problems

[Simon James Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 1478


>From: "Brooks R" <brooksar at indy.net>
>Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:27:22
>
>Several of my other lists (which are all under one owner) forwarded a
>message from egroups last night which states in essence that egroups'
>ISP had two power failures in the space of a few hours, and when they
>finally got the system back up, one of the servers which had some
>portion of the member lists was corrupted.  That had to be restored
>from backup, so there was a several hour period where egroups had a
>variety of problems, and was un-responsive.  I suspect that
>particular listowner had sent a query, and received that message,
>rather than it being automatically sent to all listowners.
>
>-Brooks
>

It sounds like your listowner is signed up to the egroups-status list, which is where this
information was posted by egroups staff.  IIRC, you don't need to be a listowner or moderator
to sign up for the list.


Simon.

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