e-mails not posting.

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Fri, 05 May 2006 22:22:46 -0700

Re: e-mails not posting.

 

 

 

 

This seems questionable to me for a few reasons;

 

1) The author of the mail below capitalizes letters that shouldn't be

capitalized.

2) I searched the internet and could not find any reference to a " My

Wife " virus except the link in the mail. It seems to be low risk and

old news.

3) I found the same exact mail (without the odd capitalizations) dated

Jan 25th on the yg-alerts group.

 

Not sure what all of this means, but it's not likely to be the cause

of 's current funkiness.

 

-R....

 

R... E... wrote:

 

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> I got this from another group could explain a few things I have been

sending all day wondered what happened to them

> From as to why we're not receiving mail....

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> Hi Folks,Should have posted this earlier, but I wanted to let

everyone know That we are aware of the delays in email delivery that

are affecting Many groups right now. The problem is not related to any

of the Database and hardware work we were doing earlier in the year.

Rather, the primary cause is the " My Wife virus

(http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_138027.htm ), which has caused a

Huge spike in the number of emails sent to . This spike

Has gone beyond the capacity of our current systems to handle, which

Is causing the delays in email delivery. We have already taken two

steps to address the issue, which has Begun to reduce the number of

delays: - We are dropping (I.e. Not delivering) all outgoing email

that Includes the virus (in other words, we are not sending infected

Messages to groups).- We have added additional server capacity And we

are planning to increase that capacity even more. However, Until the

virus has fully played itself out or more ISPs have taken Steps to

reduce the amount of email they are sending to us (by Dropping

messages that contain the virus rather than forcing us to Do it),

there may continue to be some delays. Our apologies for any

inconvenience.- Gordon Team

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