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RE: [colorvision_group] Group inactivity?

2006-05-08 by Kris

Johnny,

It does seem to have slowed a bit, but over the past week, there have been
some problems on the Yahoo! side.  The following message was posted to
another forum, it might account for some of the slowdown.  -kris moler,
co-moderator

Hi Folks,Should have posted this earlier, but I wanted 
to let everyone know That we are aware of the delays 
in email delivery that are affecting Many groups right 
now. The problem is not related to any of the Database 
and hardware work we were doing earlier in the year. 
Rather, the primary cause is the "My Wife virus 
(http://vil.nai.Com/vil/content/v_138027.htm ), which 
has caused a Huge spike in the number of emails sent 
to Yahoo! Groups. This spike Has gone beyond the 
capacity of our current systems to handle, which Is 
causing the delays in email delivery. We have already 
taken two steps to address the issue, which has Begun 
to reduce the number of delays: - We are dropping 
(I.e. Not delivering) all outgoing email that Includes 
the virus (in other words, we are not sending infected 
Messages to groups).- We have added additional server 
capacity And we are planning to increase that capacity 
even more. However, Until the virus has fully played 
itself out or more ISPs have taken Steps to reduce the 
amount of email they are sending to us (by Dropping 
messages that contain the virus rather than forcing us 
to Do it), there may continue to be some delays. Our 
apologies for any inconvenience.- GordonYahoo! Groups 
Team

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