Re: [OT?] Problems with majordomo :-)

* Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> [310804, 16:10]:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> > there are two ways in which a message would drop off the face of the earth
> > ... Spamassassin scored it high enough to be considered spam, or the virus
> > checker detected a virus :(  In both cases, the messages are just drop'd
> > into /dev/null ...
>
> Don't forget my problem with mail being lost in the air with a strange
> error message from a postmaster somewhere in the relay chain (I suspect
> commandprompt.com).  It was never resolved, and I had one person telling
> me a week ago that he could not subscribe to the list for this reason (I
> had to subscribe him manually).
>
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> >
> > >I'm experiencing some weird behaviour by majordomo-owner (not answering
> > >my posts, even older than a week) and also with pgsql-novice and cygwin,
> > >I addressed a few posts to them which are nowhere to be seen (a search
> > >in the Archives also gives no result!); neither do I receive any
> > >acknowledgemt of reject or stall, which I set for. Even with 'general'
> > >there seem to be problems: I saw a couple of posts mailed recently, but
> > >couldn't see my answers, although the selfcopy is set.
> > >Could anibody explain what is going on?
>
> > >P.S. I do receive other people's post, apparently all of them.
>
> You don't know if you receive them all ... remember, maybe there is some
> data loss, but the records of data loss is also lost.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
> "Entristecido, Wutra                     (canción de Las Barreras)
> echa a Freyr a rodar
> y a nosotros al mar"
>
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Ohhh! Thank you very much indeed, Alvaro.
Your post, and Marc's answer, (although I don't know what the DNS
problem may be) help me feel not so dumb! :-)

Cheers,
    Ennio.

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