Re: outages list badly broken, flooding messages

[Mike Lyon via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Not seeing this flooding in my inbox…

-Mike

> On Apr 27, 2025, at 09:27, Glenn McGurrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> I've already received 76 copies of
> "Re: [Outages-discussion] Lists dead - after action report?"
> and continue receiving them every few minutes, apologies, 77 copies now, this is clearly badly broken, I do 
> understand this is a volunteer run list, but normally I do want to receive notifications as it's generally important 
> if it's on this list, but currently I'm looking at having to block the list as it's sending my notifications nuts.
>
>
> Also as an aside, I'd hesitated offering this before, not feeling like I was known enough or had enough standing in 
> the community for it to be accepted and used, but if help is needed figuring out the issues, or if it would help the 
> community to have a backup list, running mailman or potentially for added diversity running a different mailing list 
> software, it's been a bit but I've used sympa before as well as mailman to run lists, I'm happy to host a secondary 
> backup list(s) to offer some extra redundancy to the community (or if people really wanted to have someone take over 
> the main I'm willing to, but I'm not asking for that or expecting anyone wants that), I know some mention has been 
> made in a thread somewhere about adding redundancy to the list but nothing about the form of that redundancy.
>
> FWIW up to 96 copies now as I write this, it's been going on for about an hour and a half at this point, I held of 
> sending anything initially hoping it would be jumped on and at least the sending shut down even if that meant taking 
> any remaining online part of the list down for now until there was time to fix it, as I get it, it's Sunday, people 
> have plans, etc, at this point all I'd ask to be expedited is shutting it down until such time as people have time to 
> fix it, not for people to abandon plans on a Sunday to root cause this and fully fix it.
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