[AccessD] Please Read

[John Colby]

Sorry to hear about your mom.  This stuff is deadly real.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:59 PM Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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John W. Colby
Colby Consulting