RE: Re: What is the delay?

I started getting doubles and triples of most messages...not all and not
all on gardenchat...just some.

Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN




> [Original Message]
> From: lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 09/04/2003 4:35:05 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Re: What is the delay?
>
> Cersgarden@aol.com wrote:
>
> > What is happening to our messages.  Kitty, you stated yours were not
coming 
> > thru and I sent  the above message on 30 Aug but rcd it dated 3 Sept.
>
> Hi Ceres,
>
>     Donna was partially right in saying that this was because of the big
>     Internet worm that's been going around.  A mail loop over the weekend
>     caused one of the hort.net disks to fill up with lots and lots of
>     copies of the worm (no, we weren't infected), so when the disks ran
>     out of room the lists stopped working.
>
>     I have a backup mechanism in place to save the messages if this
>     happens, so I went through each message in the backup, made sure that
>     it hadn't been resent to the list, and then resent it myself.
>
>     The end result is that some messages on the weekend of Aug. 30th
>     ended up going through the list a few days late.  This happened to
>     all of the hort.net lists.
>
>     Sorry about the confusion.  I'm now writing a script to monitor the
>     disk space and remove unnecessary files (as well as notify me) if
>     the same situation presents itself again, so hopefully we can avoid
>     the delayed emails.
>
> Chris
>
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