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the queue from december's cataclysm

PostPosted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:55 pm
by josh
As many of you know, we had some major trouble in December that resulted in an outage, and a huge backlog in the mail queue. To restore service, we moved the queue offline. So far, we've been taking requests to retrieve specific messages from that queue, but today, we're making some wholesale efforts to clear it altogether. For this reason, you may be getting some messages from mid-december (better late than never :)). This may continue over the next few days.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:03 am
by William
Ah hah! So thats why I just got my old email that had my password to bluesnews so I could post messages. I was thinking the problem was on thier end lol. Well I appreciate you going through the queue I have a few other messages that might be in there too.
If you need my ID let me know.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:05 am
by josh
I, too, am getting mail from 3 weeks ago -- several messages informing me the website is down -- I responded to the first one, and he replied that he'd sent the message way back when...

Sort of a blast-from-the-not-so-distant-past kind of effect.

Holy cow! I'm utterly dependent.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:43 am
by antichefLover
I'd been blaming everyone else for the lack of email back then, and now they're just arriving. I'm afraid I've become totally dependent on spamgourmet. If it ever disappeared much of my online life would go with it. I'm off to make a donation!

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:50 am
by antichefLover
Done. And the reciept's already arrived, via antichef...

Thanks,

Everybody should donate.

Re: the queue from december's cataclysm

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:59 am
by LostMail
josh wrote:For this reason, you may be getting some messages from mid-december (better late than never :)).


Thank you! I got all I needed!

Great job!

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:58 am
by abienvenu
That you very much, I got all missing emails. You are the master!

I too, took SPAMGOURMET for granted...

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:26 pm
by brew
Never dreamed the service was down, like others, I complained to the other folks... oh well they really did ship my order and send me the tracking number. :oops:

Well it prompted me to finally make a donation. :D

Thanks JOSH for all your efforts, I love this service and would be lost without it. :!:

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:52 pm
by josh
thanks to everyone who donated!

We're pretty much through clearing the queue.

Freaked!

PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:44 pm
by muttdog
josh wrote:thanks to everyone who donated!

We're pretty much through clearing the queue.



Woah, I got freaked for a while there. Back when this all went down, I was resetting a password, and that is how i knew there was a problem.

But yesterday I got about 10 emails saying my password was reset blah blah blah, i htought I had a hacker on my hands!

PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:36 pm
by josh
we don't send emails to say that your password *was* reset -- just an email with a link that lets you reset the password. Those may be viruses....

Happy that december's cataclysm is sorted out

PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:36 pm
by Christoph Thomas
Josh, I'm very happy, that you and your team maintain spamgourmet. Hence, I've sent a donation right now. Have a nice year 2005 and don't stop maintenance this decade.