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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and
Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1342
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) PUBYAC Limpingly Back by "Pyowner" <pyowner@pallasinc.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Pyowner" <pyowner@pallasinc.com> To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: PUBYAC Limpingly Back Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:02:55 -0700 Dear PUBYACkers, PUBYAC has been down for a week because Prairienet in Illinois was attacked by hackers early Thursday Feb. 12. All their servers had to be rebuilt, and communications are still not quite up to speed. While this message is going out to everyone, you need to understand that Listproc is working v-e-r-y slowly. For example, Listproc usually sends out packets of 20 messages four times per second. It is currently sending out 20 messages every 100 seconds. Since PUBYAC has 3500 subscribers, it will take over three hours of processing for just this message to reach everyone. Prairienet has requested that we come back "lightly" until the delivery speed problem is resolved. Therefore, I am going to severely control the posting of messages over the next few days so that we don't monopolize Prairienet's resources. It appears that all postings you sent this last week have been lost. Some of you e-mailed me to tell me your messages were rejected. If you posted anything after midnight on Feb. 12, you will need to resend it to pubyac@prairienet.org , but do so with some constraint until we are truly back up to speed. I don't know if this incident will hasten our migration to the new MailMan listprocessor software or not. In the future, if you find that PUBYAC is absent for an extended period of time, please check the PUBYAC webpage. I try to keep that updated with any breaking news that pertains to the entire subscriber list. The PUBYAC website is not on Prairienet's server, so it is unaffected by problems that hit Prairienet. I also sent out a message directly from pyowner@pallasinc.com on Thursday to alert everyone to the problem, but many of your domains rejected the message because of spam filters. You might want to add pyowner@pallasinc.com as an approved e-mail address. I received lots of bounces for other reasons, and so I am culling the subscriber list for what appear to be bad addresses. So if you get knocked off PUBYAC in the next few days, I apologize, and please resubscribe. Easy directions are on the PUBYAC Website. Shannon VanHemert PUBYAC Moderator pyowner@pallasinc.com Website: www.pallasinc.com/pubyac ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1342 *************************
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