[Wine] Mailing list going beserk (Done!?!)

[Jeremy White]

I've gone into the exim queue and surgically removed all
mail that was queued to go to wine-users between 39 and 41 hours ago;
there was quite a lot pending in that range, and it seemed
to correlate to the newsgroup catchup.

Hopefully that will stop this flood, and I also hope that I haven't
harmed any other emails.  (I did my best to limit it strictly to
wine-users, and there is a clear argument that wine-users is unusable
anyways atm).

There may be a few stragglers yet, but the bulk of the queued
mail is now gone, so hopefully we're finally done.  My apologies
for not understanding where this mail was queued sooner; I could
have stopped this last night if I had understood it.

Finally, thanks to those few of you that wrote to me directly; I
sort my mail (and take wine-users via digest), so I was slow to clue
in to the problem.  Direct email helped with the clue bat.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Cristian Falcas wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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