[meteorite-list] List Archives Down

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:30:01 2004
Message-ID: <20030930014136.35839.qmail_at_web80502.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello List,

This post is a Re-transmission!
I apologize if this post has been repeated, but the
first post never made it to the List Archives...

The List Archives at -
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/
are down again.

All September posts prior to:
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
are "missing" somewhere in cyberspace.

I've already notified Art. It appears that this
problem is getting worse over time.

Usually, this happens near the end of the month.
Since this is a "server space" problem, the first
remedy would be for us to go on a diet and trim our
messages down.

And I don't mean that we should write shorter posts.
I'm only suggesting to cut off the trailing ends of
messages with long references to Original Messages.
This typically happens with long threads.

For sure, HTML posts are always at least twice as long
as TEXT messages. This may be a service provider
dependent thing (such as with listees on AOL) but some
posts this past month have had HTML trash that was
EIGHT (8) TIMES longer than the body of the message!

Because of this latest trend, Art is thinking about
lowering AGAIN the size limit of posts to the List.
These filters are already rejecting 1800!! messages a
WEEK! - mostly spam, but also posts to the List by
non-members are relegated to this cyber-purgatory.
So, in the future, if you are having troubles getting
your posts to the List, try truncating your message
before you bother contacting Art.

According to Art, these problems are also contributing
to the delay in new members getting approved, and in
their getting access to the List! For the time being,
until we can find a permanent fix, we should all do
our part to ease the load on Art's admin duties. And
it should be an easy thing to do; as simple as
truncating redundant text.

Just say "No!" to long messages.

With best regar
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Received on Mon 29 Sep 2003 09:41:36 PM PDT