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Subject:ADMIN: Re: Big sig!!! From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 31 Oct 1997 05:34:01 -0700
Gang,
Fred pretty well pegged it. The two massive special issues
of the digest (new to me) were a result of the size.
Don't know what happened--could have been James Bauman's
system, could have been something else--but am looking
into it. The listserv admin doesn't think it was caused by a
server bug (he watched it happen, fortuitiously), but commented that the
server was backed up for over an hour, which is incredible.
My computer was backed up WAY longer than that. ;-(
Eric
At 04:10 PM 10/30/97 -0500, Ridder, Fred wrote:
>Wow, a new world record! A 100-word message with a
>65,500-line sig! And a reply that quotes the message
>in full, complete with sig. File this under the category
>"how to choke a list server to death in two easy lessons!"
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