FW: Re: XYWRITE mailing list

[cld@xxxxxxxx]

FYI, see below.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx

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From: cld@xxxxxxxx
To: "Jay C. Treat" 
Subject: Re: XYWRITE mailing list
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:14:12 -0500
> Jay,
>
> Many thanks. Would appreciate your continuing to keep me informed, as interest
> among my subscribers is high.
>
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jay C. Treat" 
> > Dear Carl:
> >
> > I've also seen slow deliveries from listproc on ccat.sas.
> > Last week, there was a 40-minute interval from posting
> > to a test list to receiving the message on the same server.
> > But I had not heard of any delay as long as the ones
> > you are now reporting.
> >
> > Increased spam could affect performance somewhat, but
> > I'd be very surprised if it caused a 24-hour delay. I'll
> > cc this to our sysadmins in case they are aware of any
> > course of action that might improve performance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jay
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Carl Distefano wrote:
> >
> > > I'm the XyWrite list owner. Mail delivery has been slow
> > > recently -- 24 hours or more between initial posting and
> > > distribution to subscribers, as opposed to a normal
> > > turnaround time of minutes, or a couple of hours at most.
> > >
> > > Many people (myself included) are experiencing a dramatic
> > > increase in the volume of spam, and I see from the error
> > > messages that there is a lot of spam and malicious mail
> > > addressed to the list. Is this affecting the list
> > > server's performance?
> > >
> > > Grateful for any info. you can provide.
> >
> > --
> > Jay C. Treat
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> > Arts & Sciences Computing
> > University of Pennsylvania
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> >
> >
>
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