[AccessD] Please Read

[Keith Williamson]

Sorry to hear about your Mom, Bryan.  God Bless and good health to you.

Keith E. Williamson
Chief Financial Officer
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2021 6:58 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [AccessD] Please Read


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Hey Folks,

I think we are back in business. There may be some speed bumps along the way, but things are looking better from my end. In case you hadn't noticed, all of DBA's lists have been down for about 3 weeks.

Several things contributed to this LONG outage.

1) We were getting a TON of bounce backs, which flagged the server with Gmail, MS (Hotmail, Outlook, etc), Yahoo and AOL and all their associated servers. This is the one that took time to clean up, and I'm not 100% sure that it is fully fixed, but it's looking like it is.

2) My Mum passed away from complications due to Covid-19 just before Christmas. That kind of took me out of the loop for a bit, needless to say.

3) The holidays came and went.

4) It looked like we were getting hit by a DDOS on our mail server as well.
10's of thousands of connections to the mailing lists per day!

Where do we stand?

I have made some necessary changes to the list configurations to deal with some of these issues.

1) ALL moderation emails go to listmaster at databaseadvisors.com for now.

2) Because of #1, if your emails are too big you should get a notice that it is being held. You will need to trim and resend because I will NOT be able to get to them to let them through. If it is still too big, turn off HTML/RICH TEXT email and send in PLAIN text only.

3) If you post from the wrong address, all those emails will automatically be discarded. No notice to you or me. If you are concerned about if a post made it to the list, check the list archives. yes, I turned on the archive for OT back on.
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4) I have disabled ALL the lists except for OT and AccessD. I will slowly be reenabling the various lists, one per day over the next little while just to make sure that we don't end up sliding back too far.

5) DO NOT send test messages to any list, please. This can contribute to problems if we are having them. Check the archive or email me directly ( carbonnb at gmail.com or listmaster at databaseadvisors.com). I can't stress this one enough.

So this is the long and roundabout way to say, we can start using the lists again. Be gentle and don't flood the lists.

Bryan
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Listmaster

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Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"
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