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Re: junk in the mail



On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Peter Lorand Peres wrote:
> 
> > I have been getting a lot of copies of this apparently. There is also a
> > mysterious 'inverse' mail from one shporer@usa.net, an oleg@netvision and
> > a lot of huji bounces.

The problem seems to be a result of wri.technion sending back error 
messages to the list itself in a look. There could have been 1 or 2 minor 
problems that sparked this one. Removing a wri.technion address from the 
list seems to have done the trick and the looping stopped.
 
> the benefits of moving the lists here: faster delivery, at LEAST to the
> people outside of Machba, and the mail server as not as loaded as huji's,
> which hits max disk space twice a month.

A new mail server will be installed here before the semester starts, 
probably running a combination of qmail and sendmail. This means that 
problems we were having (the spool filled up twice during the summer) 
will be solved, and mail delivery will be much faster than it currently 
is (will be done with qmail and not sendmail). 
 
> 1. leave things as is, cs.huji will one day get a new mail server
> 2. move all non-ac.il addresses to bit, linux-il@cs.huji will continue
> serving ac.il addresses, and linux-il@linux.org.il will send to it (and
> handle bounces)
> 3. move the entire list here to linux.org.il

Another consideration could be that Ira will be going to California. 
Machine administration can be done remotely, but the linux.org.il machine 
has one administrator and the cs.huji machine is a main server in a 
network served by a systems group. That means that even if I'm not here 
there are people dealing with problems such as routing and disks, because 
they affect hundreds of our users.

Regards,
Ariel

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Ariel Nowersztern            Systems Programmer          reln@cs.huji.ac.il
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