listserv hosed? [Was: Fwd: nanog.org mailing list memberships reminder]
Rich Kulawiec
rsk at gsp.org
Fri Feb 2 11:30:20 UTC 2018
1. It's not a listserv. It's a mailing list. ListServ is obsolete,
expensive, closed-source garbage software used exclusively by people
who don't know any better and like to waste their money.
2. This problem was possibly, but not certainly, caused by a misfiring
cron job. (I've seen it before.) The list-owner(s) were probably made
aware of it almost immediately, because on a mailing list of this size,
there are always SMTP rejects of some small fraction of the monthly
reminders -- and this time, they probably arrived in batches of 16.
---rsk
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