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Matt Dralle
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Joined: 08 Nov 2005
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Location: Livermore CA USA
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 Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: Postmortem - List Melt Down Thursday 01/12/12... |
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Dear listers,
My apologies. I thought that I had caught the auto-responder from "ctura(at)politecnica.it" first thing this morning and had unsubscribed the email address from the List. I wasn't seeing anymore posts coming in my email throughout the morning and felt proud of myself for having caught the outbreak early.
Then about 5pm I thought it seemed kind of strange that I hadn't been getting my normal amount of List mail from the Kolb and other lists throughout the day. I went back and looked at my logs and realized that I had removed *MY* email address from all the lists instead of ctura(at)politecnica.it"! What a dork! Hey, I've had the flu all week!
Anyway, I've removed the correct address from the List and have gone back and cleaned all of the archives, digest, listbrowse and web forums of all the bogus email so, other than your respective email boxes, things should be back to "normal".
What was going on is that the email address "ctura(at)politecnica.it" was subscribed to the Kolb-List, but the account had been closed early this morning. Every time a post was made to the Kolb-List, the auto responder at politecnica.it would send another email back to the list saying the account was closed. Then the auto-responder would see its own message coming back from the List and dutifully send another response. Every time someone posted another message to the list with "STOP ALL THESE MESSAGES" (or whatever), it would start another thread of responses from the auto-responder, exponentially increasing the number of messages being forwarded and send. This would go on until, I guess, the world exploded. The Mayans were right, the end of the world did arrive in 2012. 327 email messages was all it took to knock the earth off its axis... <smirk> "politecnica.it"'s auto-responder is broken; it should only send a single copy of "this user doesn't exist" to a given source email address. Had it functioned this way, there would have been only one message to the List and people would have mostly not noticed.
Sorry for the hassle.
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Admin
Matt G Dralle | Matronics | 581 Jeannie Way | Livermore | CA | 94550
925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle(at)matronics.com Email
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Eugene Zimmerman
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 392
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:12 am Post subject: Postmortem - List Melt Down Thursday 01/12/12... |
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Matt,
Thank you for the Kolb list fix.
Keep up the good work. It is much appreciated.
Gene Z
On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Matt Dralle wrote:
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Dear listers,
My apologies. I thought that I had caught the auto-responder from "ctura(at)politecnica.it" first thing this morning and had unsubscribed the email address from the List. I wasn't seeing anymore posts coming in my email throughout the morning and felt proud of myself for having caught the outbreak early.
Then about 5pm I thought it seemed kind of strange that I hadn't been getting my normal amount of List mail from the Kolb and other lists throughout the day. I went back and looked at my logs and realized that I had removed *MY* email address from all the lists instead of ctura(at)politecnica.it"! What a dork! Hey, I've had the flu all week!
Anyway, I've removed the correct address from the List and have gone back and cleaned all of the archives, digest, listbrowse and web forums of all the bogus email so, other than your respective email boxes, things should be back to "normal".
What was going on is that the email address "ctura(at)politecnica.it" was subscribed to the Kolb-List, but the account had been closed early this morning. Every time a post was made to the Kolb-List, the auto responder at politecnica.it would send another email back to the list saying the account was closed. Then the auto-responder would see its own message coming back from the List and dutifully send another response. Every time someone posted another message to the list with "STOP ALL THESE MESSAGES" (or whatever), it would start another thread of responses from the auto-responder, exponentially increasing the number of messages being forwarded and send. This would go on until, I guess, the world exploded. The Mayans were right, the end of the world did arrive in 2012. 327 email messages was all it took to knock the earth off its axis... <smirk> "politecnica.it"'s auto-responder is broken; it should only send a single copy of "this user doesn't exist" to a given so!
urce email address. Had it functioned this way, there would have been only one message to the List and people would have mostly not noticed.
Sorry for the hassle.
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Admin
Matt G Dralle | Matronics | 581 Jeannie Way | Livermore | CA | 94550
925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle(at)matronics.com Email
http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft
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http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Kolb-List |
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