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On 1 Nov 92 21:43:40 MET-1 (INFO-TeX), "Wolfgang Ratzka"
<RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> posted:
> Whats happening? I now rarely get messages from Info-TeX, and if I do they
> are about half a month old or even older.
>
> I've signed off the ctt-digest and some back issues are still trickling in.
>
> Any thing weird happened to shsu.edu?

As just about everyone on the mail side has noticed; yes, we've had some
serious mail problems at SHSU, which has impacted all list-related,
file-related, and personal mail routed through SHSU.  For these, I
apologize.  We have made every honest non-trivial attempt (over the past 11
days, with someone here virtually around the clock over that time period)
to get mail enqueued out of our heavily backlogged system.  The backlog was
a result of disk failures and processor failures, combined with VMS
directory architecture limitations and extraordinarily heavy usage --
October, 1992, simply was not a very kind month to us.

As of 0815 CST today (2 Nov 1992), all messages and requests previously
received have been placed on another machine as it was clear that we were
not making any significant headway when we opened up the incoming channels. 
We are attempting to process backlogged personal mail (only) on this
machine, but some list or file-related mail may get through.  Absolutely no
guarantees that you will or won't see something from that process.  If you
have requested something from SHSU or have posted something to any address
at SHSU and have not seen it by sometime around Wednesday of this week, it
is safe to assume it has gone off to wherever dead bytes go.

If you did somehow continue to receive postings (such as from ctt-Digest)
after you signed off, it is very likely attributable to your being
subscribed at the time the post was received and processed originally.  Our
mailer makes every attempt to get you all posts made prior to your signoff.

Again, I apologize for any and all inconvenience this has created and
extend my thanks to you for your patience.  We have every reason to believe
things are back in order at this time and await your usage.

Regards,   George
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