[Gnu-arch-users] Re: email flakiness

[Miles Bader]

John Goerzen <address@hidden> writes:
> >> What could be the reason?
> >
> > Well, it seems like the mails don't get lost, but take about a day to
> > get here...
> 
> Indeed; messages I posted Monday evening finally showed up this
> afternoon.  Highly strange.

In case some people missed it, here's something I posted earlier:

 A recent FSF status update makes the following point:

    Imagine how many Internet-connected Windows boxes have ever stored an
    @gnu.org, @fsf.org, or @prep.ai.mit.edu email address on their hard
    drives.  Now, imagine each of them sending constant email to those
    addresses in a multi-threaded way, and you'll get an idea of the load
    on the GNU/FSF mail servers that SoBig.F has caused.  Our sysadmin has
    been baby-sitting the server and the mail queue to make sure that
    legitimate mail gets through, SoBig.F traffic doesn't, and that the
    system doesn't fall over completely.

-Miles
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