Re: [boost] problems with posting

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-09-13 14:22:18

At 05:14 PM 9/13/2000 +0000, Alexy wrote:

 >Does anybody besides me have any problems with posting messages to
 >boost_at_[hidden] (by ordinary e-mail)? I've sent (at least :) two
 >messages about 7 hours ago, and they still haven't appeared nor at
 >the egroups "messages" section nor in my mailbox... Actually no new
 >messages appeared in the archive since 5:20 am (their time), so I
 >suppose that's not only my problem. Is that so?
 >
 >--Aleksey

There is an eGroups mailing list (eGroups-status_at_[hidden]) which I guess 
anyone can subscribe to for notices of outages, planned or 
otherwise.  Seems like there is a posting every 10 or 15 days.  The 
deliberate maintenance outages are usually planned for one hour.  Here is 
the message concerning the unplanned outage this morning.

--Beman

 >When: Wed Sept 13 1:19am - 10:30am PDT (-0700 GMT)
 >
 >The eGroups ISP experienced two power outages at 1:19am and 1:56am.
 >Most machines came back online immediately, but some servers were
 >offline until 10:30am this morning.  A quarter of group archives were
 >unavailable, and mail to those groups would not go through.
 >
 >Everything is up and running now, and we are processing the mail
 >backlog.  Mail through our system is currently delayed dued to the
 >backlog by about an hour.  This delay should be over in about an hour.
 >
 >The replicated database is several hours behind, which should affect
 >subscriptions to groups larger than 250.  It should be caught up in 2-3
 >hours.
 >
 >Sorry for the inconvenience.
 >
 >Brandon
 >eGroups Engineering