[AccessD] Please Read

Tue Jan 19 16:28:54 CST 2021

Hi Brian,

So very sorry to hear about your Mum. My sincere condolences.

A HUGE thank you for all that you are doing, have done, and will do, on our behalf - Thank you, Sir.

Darren. 

On 4/1/21, 10:58 am, "AccessD on behalf of Bryan Carbonnell" <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of 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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