Re: Gatewayed article surge

Walt Hultgren {rmy} wrote: > > There has been a network connectivity problem between the two systems > that host the gateway between informix-list and > comp.databases.informix > since the weekend of November 22. It has now been corrected. > > The effect on the gateway was that c.d.i articles went through to the > mailing list normally, but messages posted directly to the list were > blocked and remained in the gateway queue. There are now nearly 130 > such messages waiting to be posted. > > I am about to turn the list->news portion of the gateway back on, or > as we say in my part of the US, I'm fixing to turn it back on. :-) > There is a limit on how fast gatewayed messages are posted to c.d.i > to avoid overloading the news server, so it will probably take 10-12 > hours for the queue to completely empty out. Oh they emptied out all right! I had 201 new messages this morning. I had to check what day it was in case I had missed a day! :-) But thanks for the sanity check. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+