[Wine] Mailing list going beserk

[Cristian Falcas]

It seems I reached september now. A few other thousand (maybe tens of
thousands) and it should be ALL normal.
Great job.

On 3/20/07, Jeremy White <jwhite at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
> >> We did system maintenance on the WineHQ server yesterday.
> >>
> >> Apparently, the gateway between the newsgroup and the mailing
> >> list has been broken, and has been broken for some time.
> >>
> >> The mail flood is the result of that break being repaired,
> >> so that the two are now linked again.  (You can see that the
> >> emails flooding to wine-users are ones that originally were
> >> posted to the newsgroup).
> >>
> > Any idea when this will end? I have received over 400 messages and I
> > seem to still get around 10 of these emails to my gmail box every 5
> > minutes.
>
> Well, no, and the mystery deepens.  That is, I poked around in log
> files and such trying to remember how the gateway is configured.
>
> And the gateway is configured to use an NNTP server provided by
> our old ISP, which rejects our queries, and has for quite some time now.
>
> I spent the afternoon trying to figure this out, but have now essentially
> run out of time.
>
> I've disabled the gateway between news and mail in the hopes that
> will stem the tide of old messages.  Once I figure out a news server
> that will listen to me, I'll see about rebridging it
> (although, arguably, a completely different solution may be more
> appropriate).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
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