On 11/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William O'Higgins Witteman</b> <<a href="mailto:william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org">william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is there any explanation for the list outage last week? I assume there<br>was an outage because I only got two emails from the list between the<br>14th and this morning, when I got over 50, and Gmane seemed to agree<br>with me. Or am I just crazy ;-)
<br><br>(shut up, shut up, they'll hear you)</blockquote><div><br></div></div>True story: I once dealt with a network provider whose service was a little spotty; one day, all of my transactions were being 'lost' -- at the network level I'd get an ACK that they'd been received, then .. nothing (I should have received either a response or a timeout). When I followed up, the sysadmin told me the transaction was probably delayed because of 'snow on the lines'.
<br><br>I paused to consider explaining to her on how many levels she might be wrong, then decided that someone who was trying to use that excuse for a network problem was either a) not really equipped to help me solve the problem or b) pulling my leg. I decided the best approach was just to accept that story and wait for the network service to return -- allowing her to save face, and allowing me to retain my sanity.
<br><br>So .. maybe there were, like, birds on the wire going to the mail list server, that allowed it to receive mail but not forward mail?<br><br>-- <br>Alex Beamish<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>