[PW] Re: Further List Status Report

[Tina Emerick]

John,
     Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication on this.  I don't get to contribute often but have been on here since basically the beginning of all of this.  This is such an important tool to keep around, thank you and hope things get better for you soon.

Tina
 
Tina E. Emerick 
Associate Director 
Young People Services 
Elkhart Public Library 
Elkhart, IN 46517
temerick at elkhart.lib.in.us
or
temerick_2000 at yahoo.com
 
(574)522-2223 
 
Children are our future, reading is a tool to get them there


----- Original Message ----
From: John Franklin <jfranklin at project-wombat.org>
To: list at project-wombat.org
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:38:44 PM
Subject: [PW] Further List Status Report


We still have no time estimate on when it will be possible to switch  
to a new server, but we will definitely do so when the option becomes  
available. It has become very clear that more people are being  
affected by the Spamhaus problem than originally indicated by the  
bounce notifications; although some of the people whose accounts were  
suspended to begin with have worked around the problem and are on the  
list again, I have received several more suspension notifications.

When the server move happens (and there will be enough advance notice  
for me to send out notification) there will be a period of at least 3  
to 72 hours (depending on how your local DNS server is caching  
things) during which things will be a little wonky. No new  
subscriptions will be accepted during that time, and either some  
messages sent to the list may bounce, or else some messages sent to  
the list may be sent out twice. (Life is like that.)

Just to prove that things can always get worse, last night I managed  
to trip and knock my laptop on the floor. The hard disk failed  
completely. This has happened before, which makes me feel doubly- 
stupid. I have no really recent backup, because I have been waiting  
for a new hard drive to arrive to make a backup and swap drives.  
Therefore I am missing all mail sent to this address during the  
second half of November, all of December, and the first three days of  
January. (Thankfully, I have the mail client configured to only  
delete messages from the server after a week, and my other mail  
accounts keep messages until I manually remove them, so that was the  
extent of the loss of e-mail.)

Therefore: instead of enabling only Spamhaus-related suspensions,  
once the server move is complete, all subscriptions which have been  
suspended because of excessive bounces will be enabled again.  
(Subscriptions suspended manually, for vacation or to maintain a  
"write-only" second address, will remain suspended.)

In the meantime, for anyone reading this message via the archives or  
being told by a friend, the most effective solution for those with  
problems (in terms of percentage of people who have tried it and  
reported success) appears to be getting a gmail account, subscribing  
that address to the list, and having gmail (which is not blacklisted)  
forward the messages to your normal account. You can also visit the  
archives in a web browser, starting at
http://lists.project-wombat.org
and moving to the list variant you desire, then following the archive  
link. (View by date to pick out the most recent messages.)

Thank you for your continued patience, everybody.

-John Franklin
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Project Wombat
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http://www.project-wombat.org/


 
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