The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

March 14, 2004


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Jim and Alan and the Dead-List - The Story so Far


From: Jim Reith <reith@racores.com>
To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Alan, something's wrong with the list

>Do you have an email address for them? I've just got the listserv and it's
>not working - Alan

Seems to specify in the stuff I've been looking at that it's
controlled by postmaster@listserv.aol.com

>
>On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>
>>  >You might want to do the unlock cyb again?
>>
>>  Interesting. It's unlocked at the moment. Also, I've gotten no error
>>  reports since thursday night. I usually get one every night at
>>  midnight
>>
>>  >
>>  >By the way I never locked it - I couldn't even reach the site...
>>  >
>>  >But maybe trying triggered something off.
>>  >
>>  >Still I haven't even gotten a return from listserv@listserv.aol.com,
>>  >although it seems you have.
>>
>>  No, i was getting my info off the web interface. Things have been
>>  getting posted, I can see them in the archive. Nothing replying to
>>  other posts, basically mostly you and Cyrill posting and then a few
>>  test posts from others (Linda Head, Baz, Maurice, me). The test post
>>  I sent through the web interface never made it but the one I sent
>>  through normal email did
>>
>>  >Strange...
>>
>>  very
>>
>>  >
>>  >Alan
>>  >
>>  >On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  >I hope this works. I did both traceroute and ping last night on
>>  >>  >listserv.aol.com and it came up empty - the site was unreachable.
>>  >>  >We'll see - Alan
>>  >>
>>  >>  Well, things seem to get to it and post but nothing is coming back
>>  >>  out. I've heard from several more people today that haven't heard
>>  >>  anything since friday
>>  >>
>>  >>  >On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >Hi - getting nothing at all myself - what's the URL of
>>the archives? -
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >I wonder if there's not an attack on AOL going on - or if
>>  >>they just pulled
>>  >>  >>  >the plug...
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >Alan
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  I was just going to check the configuration file and it gives
me:
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  Sorry, the CYBERMIND list has been locked since 04/03/14 00:09
by
>>  >>  >>  sondheim@PANIX.COM. You can unlock it, if needed and after
checking
>>  >>  >>  with sondheim@PANIX.COM, by means of an "UNLOCK CYBERMIND"
command.
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  >On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >>  I haven't gotten any posts since about 3pm yesterday (but
>>  >>I see about
>>  >>  >>  >>  23 posts in the archives since then). I tried to post using
the
>>  >>  >>  >>  archives and it didn't get listed. I posted by email and it
got
>>  >>  >>  >>  there. Baz is having similar problems. i didn't even
>>get the normal
>>  >>  >>  >>  error report at midnight last night. not sure what's
>>going on but
>>  >>  >>  >>  some number of people aren't getting emails at the moment...
>>  >>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >
From: Jim Reith <reith@racores.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: List problems - please Read

The list seems to have gone into a funky write-only mode (posts are
getting made through email but not the web interface and nothing is
coming back out) since about 3pm EST Friday 3/12. Alan and I are
trying to make sense of it but none of the things we've tried seem to
be helping. Alan is now contacting AOL to have them kick the server
in the pants for us. please be aware you are not alone in getting no
mail and that it is being looked into.

Thanks, Jim and Alan

From: Jim Reith <reith@racores.com>
To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Alan, something's wrong with the list

>When I do traceroute I get a lot of !X - which means -
>!X  (communication  administratively prohibited)
>- according to the man traceroute.
>
>Strange. I'll write postmaster at this end - Alan

Ok, let me know if you hear anything because I am getting queries from
people

>
>On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>
>>  RELEASE
>>
>>  LISTSERV(R) High Performance for unix version 1.8e, managed by:
>>  postmaster@listserv.aol.com
>>
>>  Alias file version: *** File not found ***
>>  Running under: HP-UX B.11.11
>>  Runmode: Standalone
>>
>>  Don't know, but getting a "file not found" error seems suspicious...
>>
>
From: Jim Reith <reith@racores.com>
To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Re: list mail

>Strange then. Do you want to try the unlock command or free cybermind
>again? - Alan

I've locked and unlocked it several times, hoping to kickstart
something but nothing happened

>On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Jim Reith wrote:
>
>>  That list mail I just CC'd you on did make it to the list and is
>>  posted in the archives. but of course nothing has come back.
>>
>
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