Mailing list back to normal

[Peter Ball]

Just be thankfull we didn't have 2 of them at once with fast conections - then 
we wouldn't have been talking about a couple of hundred but 10s or 100s of 
thousands of bounces - urg!!

On 5 Aug 2002 at 8:20, tony "at" Instaview.com wrote:

> Yea :)
> 
> Thankfully i had digest mode so i wasnt bombarded with
> emails.
> 
> I remember once, years ago on another list the same thing
> happened, on a holday weekend. I think we were up to about
> 2000 bounces a day.. Until someone managed to get a key from
> a janitor to the comptuer room and shut the thing down ( the
> list admin was also gone on vacation )...
> 
> So it could have been MUCH worse people.. and please
> remember next time, it only makes it that much worse
> when you respond in any way to the list until its fixed..
> it only multilies our problem...
> 
> 
> >Message: 34
> >From: "Tristan Richardson" <tjr "at" realvnc.com>
> >To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
> >Subject: Mailing list back to normal
> >Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:31:22 +0100
> >Reply-To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> 
> >Sorry about all the messages folks.  The mailing list should
> >hopefully be back to normal now - I've unsubscribed the guy whose
> >mail system is obviously seriously screwed up.  Usually mailman
> >catches these kind of things but somehow this one managed to get
> >through.  We'll look into how to stop it happening again.
> 
> >Cheers
> 
> >Tristan
> >tjr "at" realvnc.com
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