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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:44:52 -0500
From: Tim Pierce <twp(a)rootsweb.com>
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Subject: RootsWeb and Recent Hotmail Problems
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Hi Listowners --
A couple of nights ago, Hotmail's servers went crazy and started
sending us duplicate and triplicate copies of everything they sent us.
We were receiving dozens of extra copies of their mail every second.
That much mail can kill a mail server.
In order to protect RootsWeb, we were forced to reject all mail coming
from Hotmail for about fifteen hours. That means that between 1am and
6pm on December 3, anything sent from a Hotmail user to
rootsweb.com
was just discarded. Even with this protective measure in place, the
mail server crashed twice overnight trying to deal with the barrage of
Hotmail messages.
This message is just to let you know in case your subscribers ask
about disappearing mail, or in case any listowners are Hotmail users
themselves and are wondering. Next week's RootsWeb Review will
mention this problem, so there's no need to forward this message to
your lists.
--
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades