Re: Just a Test

[rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)]

My apologies to the non-AOL people, but then again even you might have
AOL friends, and thus might want to know about this.  The following
messages were sent to the list-managers mailing list yesterday.
George, don't feel singled out!!

   From: PMDAtropos@aol.com
   Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 09:15:03 -0400
   Subject: Re: Problems with AOL receiving list mail?

  In a message dated 95-08-22 09:05:02 EDT, siberia@usis.com (Miss
  Demeanor) writes:

  >Is anyone else experiencing problems with AOL list members
  >receiving mail?

  We experienced a runaway sendmail last week which caused some
  problems with our mail system (and my workstation in particular). I
  believe that the problem has been fixed, and I suspect it may be the
  cause of the non-delivery problems we have recently started
  receiving. Our mail system admins are investigating too see what is
  going on.
  
  My apologies for not posting earlier, but I have been bust trying to
  catch up from the loads of mail that got dumped into my system
  yesterday.

  - --
  __ David B. O'Donnell (atropos@aol.net, PMDAtropos@aol.com)
  \/ AOL Internet Feedback/Response/Information Team Manager
     Tel. +1 703/448-8700 x3725 - FAX  +1 703/883-1514
     Belief-L, GLB-News -Press -Discuss, SoftRevu List Owner/Editor
     http://www.cais.com/atropos/ - "The spam stops here."

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  From: amys@iquest.net (Amy Stinson)
  Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 09:14 EST
  Subject: Re: Problems with AOL receiving list mail?
 
  >In a message dated 95-08-22 09:05:02 EDT, siberia@usis.com (Miss
  >Demeanor) writes:
  >
  >>Is anyone else experiencing problems with AOL list members
  >>receiving mail?

  Yes.  Over the weekend several of my digest people started
  complaining about receiving the digests and a mime file containing
  the digest.
  
  They were told by AOL that it was the fault of my list (nothing has
  been altered in the sendmail scripts)
  
  Another person who receives 3 list digests that aren't all majordomo
  said ALL her digests are coming like that.
  
  Then they said they'd look into it.


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  From: PMDAtropos@aol.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:19:46 -0400
  Subject: Re: Problems with AOL receiving list mail?

  In a message dated 95-08-22 13:48:51 EDT, amys@iquest.net (Amy
  Stinson) writes:

  >Yes.  Over the weekend several of my digest people started
  >complaining about receiving the digests and a mime file containing
  >the digest.

  Hm, this is different from the reports I've seen (which have been
  "no mail received" or "few pieces of mail received").
  
  Last week, AOL's mail system was changed to support MIME attachments
  (incoming and outgoing). Additionally, large mail (text over 25k) is
  now received in one chunk -- with the first 25k of the message in
  the body and the entire message as the attachment -- instead of
  being broken up serially into 25k pieces.
  
  >They were told by AOL that it was the fault of my list (nothing has
  >been altered in the sendmail scripts)

  Do you know who told them this? (Other than "someone who doesn't
  have a grasp of what is going on", that is)

  - --
  __ David B. O'Donnell (atropos@aol.net, PMDAtropos@aol.com)
  \/ AOL Internet Feedback/Response/Information Team Manager
     Tel. +1 703/448-8700 x3725 - FAX  +1 703/883-1514
     Belief-L, GLB-News -Press -Discuss, SoftRevu List Owner/Editor
     http://www.cais.com/atropos/ - "The spam stops here."