It seems I reached september now. A few other thousand (maybe tens of thousands) and it should be ALL normal.<br>Great job.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy White</b> <
<a href="mailto:jwhite@winehq.org">jwhite@winehq.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">John Drescher wrote:
<br>>> We did system maintenance on the WineHQ server yesterday.<br>>><br>>> Apparently, the gateway between the newsgroup and the mailing<br>>> list has been broken, and has been broken for some time.
<br>>><br>>> The mail flood is the result of that break being repaired,<br>>> so that the two are now linked again. (You can see that the<br>>> emails flooding to wine-users are ones that originally were
<br>>> posted to the newsgroup).<br>>><br>> Any idea when this will end? I have received over 400 messages and I<br>> seem to still get around 10 of these emails to my gmail box every 5<br>> minutes.<br>
<br>Well, no, and the mystery deepens. That is, I poked around in log<br>files and such trying to remember how the gateway is configured.<br><br>And the gateway is configured to use an NNTP server provided by<br>our old ISP, which rejects our queries, and has for quite some time now.
<br><br>I spent the afternoon trying to figure this out, but have now essentially<br>run out of time.<br><br>I've disabled the gateway between news and mail in the hopes that<br>will stem the tide of old messages. Once I figure out a news server
<br>that will listen to me, I'll see about rebridging it<br>(although, arguably, a completely different solution may be more appropriate).<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Jeremy<br><br>_______________________________________________
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