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[Glenn Steen]

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On 25/11/05, Doug Hall <DougHall at sankyo.co.uk> wrote:
> I can provide the server for the list if you like
>
>
> -----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:
> > As said, please ignore ... I'm just trying to see (with telnet) what's
> preventing my messages to go to the list...Sigh.
> >
> > -- Glenn
> >
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
>

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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