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Hi Steve & All, Dec 8, 2006
I suspect that this current spam storm, about 950,000 spam messages
/day at Dal as I recall, will soon blow over.
Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
Steve Shaw wrote:
> Re. Don's comment below, I recall some explanation for the haphazard
> delays on NatureNS from our list administrator a while back, but
> deleted it. The redwing post from Dorothy Poole on Dec 1 arrived
> here on Dec 6 -- taking 5 days -- while some posts seem to come
> through quite quickly, same day. The whole back-and-forth nature of
> communication is now chaotic. Rather than asking for explanations
> (presumably overloaded hardware, or new spam), is there any prospect
> of improvement now that the system has deteriorated this far? Canada
> Post would be quicker.
> A while ago, Blake Maybank (I think it was) commented that NatureNS is
> not archived and therefore not searchable, and suggested to consider
> that the list be switched to some other carrier that does have these
> facilities. Is it time to consider this seriously, for the
> additional reason of the current variable and sometimes extreme
> delays? I'm not technically well informed on this to know how much
> trouble this would be, or who would get stuck with the job, but some
> people on the list seem to be knowledgeable about the technicalities.
> Anyone want to bite into this one again? Or is the performance likely
> to get back to where it was a few weeks back?
> Steve
> Halifax
>
> On 6-Dec-06, at 9:54 AM, Don MacNeill wrote:
>
>> Just a note for people to check the dates that messages were sent to
>> NatureNS. This note from Dorothy relates to a Monday siting but wasn't
>> received until Wednesday. I sent one at 03:30 PM re our sighting on
>> Tuesday
>> which hasn't appeared yet although it was sent to NS-RBA at the same
>> time
>> and appeared there immediately. On the other hand, one from Jim Wolford
>> later yesterday showed up right away.
>>
>> I recommend that any of you that are interested in timely information on
>> bird sightings join the NS-RBA.
>>
>> Now we'll see when this message eventually arrives at NatureNS.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> Don MacNeill
>
>
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