ADMIN: Recent Yahoo glitch

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 18112

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


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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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