Hi Listowners -- A couple of nights ago, Hotmail's servers went crazy and started sending us duplicate and triplicate copies of everything they sent us. We were receiving dozens of extra copies of their mail every second. That much mail can kill a mail server. In order to protect RootsWeb, we were forced to reject all mail coming from Hotmail for about fifteen hours. That means that between 1am and 6pm on December 3, anything sent from a Hotmail user to rootsweb.com was just discarded. Even with this protective measure in place, the mail server crashed twice overnight trying to deal with the barrage of Hotmail messages. This message is just to let you know in case your subscribers ask about disappearing mail, or in case any listowners are Hotmail users themselves and are wondering. Next week's RootsWeb Review will mention this problem, so there's no need to forward this message to your lists. -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades