At 12:58 AM 2/1/97 +0000, Max Desorgher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>Due to an overload at St Johns Listserver, there is a huge backlog
>of unprocessed mail. Please help the situation by not sending to the
>list for a time.
 
To add to what Max said. On Thursday night a little before midnight (Eastern
Time) the incoming spooler was overloaded with bounce mail. It brought down
the whole system. Many good messages ended up being purged. So if you sent a
message between Thursday evening and early Friday morning, and it hasn't
appeared, you'll need to resend it to the list.
 
As Max notes they have asked that message volume be kept down for a while
until it catches up. You can get some idea of how processing is going by
comparing the timestamp of the messages with the time it arrives in your
ISP's mailbox. You'll have to do a little conversion for time zones.
 
Don Wiss.