Mailling List!

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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What would traffic/disk space be like if I wanted to offer a spot for 
the list on my rack? Perhaps I could also act as a backup MX in case of 
4xx temp failures? Just thinking out loud...

Glenn Steen wrote:

>On 25/11/05, Doug Hall <DougHall at sankyo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>I can provide the server for the list if you like
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Glenn Steen
>>Sent: 23 November 2005 13:30
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Test mail, please ignore
>>
>>On 23/11/05, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>As said, please ignore ... I'm just trying to see (with telnet) what's
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>>preventing my messages to go to the list...Sigh.
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>>>-- Glenn
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>>And now I know... Probably someone else have already mentioned this...
>>Tempfail on kili.jiscmail.ac.uk ... Sigh. Since this is unlikely to
>>reach the list I'll mail Jules too.
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>>Couldn't we move the list to something a bit more reliable? ("We" in
>>this case would be Jules ... and possibly Mr Michele Neylon:)
>>
>>Transcript of communication with kili:
>># telnet kili.jiscmail.ac.uk 25
>>Trying 130.246.192.52...
>>Connected to kili.jiscmail.ac.uk (130.246.192.52).
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>220 kili.jiscmail.ac.uk ESMTP JISCmail mailer; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:23:39
>>GMT EHLO aa.nn.se 250-kili.jiscmail.ac.uk Hello xxxx [xxxxxxxx], pleased
>>to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE
>>250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP MAIL
>>from:<glenn.steen at gmail.com>
>>452 4.4.5 Insufficient disk space; try again later quit
>>452 4.4.5 Insufficient disk space; try again later quit
>>221 2.0.0 kili.jiscmail.ac.uk closing connection Connection closed by
>>foreign host.
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>>--
>>-- Glenn
>>email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
>>work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
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>Well, that took it's sweet time getting to the list. Just had a new
>rejection from the list (both fili and kili giving me a "connection
>refused"), probably from when they've restarted them... Or else
>they've decided to hate me for suggesting a move:-):-).
>
>Anyway, As I said in the initial mail, I CC:d Jules, who has been in
>contact with jisc about this. Without saying too much, there might be
>a hint of a possibility that things are looking to change for the
>list... Perhaps not a move, as such, but ... we'll see:).
>
>If you all feel like it, this would be a good spot to enumerate
>everything good/bad with the current list service...
>
>My #1 peeve is that it simply seems to be rather badly
>managed/administered... If they want to "set up and forget", they
>should at least monitor simple things (like disk usage) via SNMP or
>similar. Has someone been keeping count on the number of occasions the
>last year that it's been erratic/unavailable?
>
>(BTW thanks for offering an alternative home... I'm sure Julian will
>be very grateful, if it comes to that)
>--
>-- Glenn
>email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
>work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
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