>Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:46:03 -0800 (PST) >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:44:52 -0500 >From: Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> >Old-To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Subject: RootsWeb and Recent Hotmail Problems >X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i >To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > >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 > > >