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In article <7527@obdient.chi.il.us> blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>In article <1992Apr27.023127.2741@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>>In article <7520@obdient.chi.il.us> blair@obdient.chi.il.us (Doug Blair) writes:
>>>
>>>Unusual conditions noted by Postmaster Of The Month or clout system 
>>>administrators for this week:
>>
>>	Are you kidding?  No unusual conditions?
>>
>>	Man, "clout" is right.
>
>The weekly stats posting is just that: statistics.  Facts.  It is a fact that
>in the week cited sites gagme and trinity moved more than 12 megs of traffic
>through clout and chinet moved more than 6 megs.  It is also fact that these
>files moved without difficulty and that clout administrators noted nothing
>abnormal about that.  In other words, the email system worked just the way it
>was intended.
>
>The weekly stats postings from clout are here for two purposes: to let those
>unfamiliar with the project know that we're here and to let those who have
>generously donated their time, knowledge and equipment (yourself among these -
>thanks Randy!) know that the system is being used and they're getting their 
>money's worth.  Wether the system should be used for emailing .gif's, ftpmail
>of source code or other high volume applications is a policy matter for the 
>steering and/or funcspec committees and/or for the system administrators of
>individual sites to determine and police locally.
>Doug

Doug,

I have also been disappointed in that the "no unusual conditions" message
has appeared during weeks when we have: run out of spool space, had "runq"
lock up and stop delivering mail, had numerous hung sendmail(smail)
processes running, etc.

Please include any problems we have had during the statistics collection
period or don't say "no unusual conditions". Is there a way that the other
administrators can inform you of problems so that they can be included in
this portion of the message?

I consider the trinity statistics an unusual condition. They tried to ftpmail
a large package and it failed to get to them in a usuable condition. This is
in my opinion a failure of our system to be robust enough to handle what
happened without manual intervention.

Mike Beirne
mikebe@i88.isc.com or beirne@limerick.chi.il.us
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