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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:11:53 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: [PGCC] Technical snafu with beastium-list
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I've noticed abnormally low (i.e. nonexistent traffic) on the beastium list
for a while. With a PGCC question, I posted to it recently and it bounced
with "user unknown"! This explains the low volume: nobody can post.
To get this error corrected, I contacted the postmaster AT desk DOT nl and the
reply was:

>I've send severall email to the list administrator of beastium-list about
>other people using this list for spamming. But ive never seen any reply's
>thats why i've closed the list.
>
>Let the administrator contact me, so we can discuss this problem.

It looks like there has been some kind of massive failure of communication.
Somehow mail to the beastium administrator stopped going through, then the
list was unilaterally terminated by the postmaster of desk.nl, whereupon
all the requests for information undoubtedly generated by list users have
somehow been vanishing or something. I think the PGCC people listen on this
list/newsgroup, hopefully someone who can do something to fix the problems
of the beastium-list will see this message.

Although how the list administrator can have the list vanish out from under
him and not notice, is beyond me.
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