I spoke with Steve Coile (yes... the guy who admins the lists with very
little gratitude on our parts!) on the phone on Tuesday of this past
week about the status of all of the lists. The list runs on a machine
which uses the qmail MTA with Smartlist as the list daemon, and qmail
was barfing for some reason and had a bazillion hung processes. Steve
told me that the plan was to move the list to sendmail but they were'nt
ready yet, in spite of the fact that qmail was ailing. Steve himself
has/had been burning the candle at both ends for too long and took a few
days off this week so Bryan Andregg was working on the problem. It would
have been far easier to just reinstall and dump the existing queue but
my guess is they did not want to do that as they consider your mail and
the resource the lists represent to be very important. So they salvaged
everything, and from what I can see now it appears to be on it's way
back (if not already back) to normal operation.
I don't think that Red Hat was deliberately not communicating about the
issue... I think they were simply working as quickly as possible to fix
the problem with a minimum of stink! Also the problem first began on a
weekend and once it finally became apparent there really was a problem
they had a mess on their hands.
I hope that this will end all of the conjecture and guessing games and
folks will get back to talking about Red Hat Linux.
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