The www.mail-archive.com was was down for about 40 hours this
weekend. (So much for a goal of 99.5% uptime) I believe no data
was lost, although some mail warnings may have been sent through the
net. Sorry for the inconvenience; lessons have been learned.

What happened?

On Thursday, June 3, while I was out of town, the primary system had a
disk failure, so I switched everything over to the failsafe system. So
far so good.

On Friday, June 5, I rebooted the failsafe system (in hindsight: not
very wise) since it had been up for a VERY long time. When it came
back there was no network connectivity. It nearly two days to fix;
sigh...

What does this mean? Email generally times out over five days, so as
the system is now back all that stored up mail (~2000 messages) will
rush in and get archived. I hope the (delayed mail) warning messages
didn't scare off any list owners! The web site was also off line for
the weekend.

Jeff Breidenbach



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