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Index of Subjects Hi Steve & All, Dec 8, 2006 I suspect that this current spam storm, about 950,000 spam messages /day at Dal as I recall, will soon blow over. Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville Steve Shaw wrote: > Re. Don's comment below, I recall some explanation for the haphazard > delays on NatureNS from our list administrator a while back, but > deleted it. The redwing post from Dorothy Poole on Dec 1 arrived > here on Dec 6 -- taking 5 days -- while some posts seem to come > through quite quickly, same day. The whole back-and-forth nature of > communication is now chaotic. Rather than asking for explanations > (presumably overloaded hardware, or new spam), is there any prospect > of improvement now that the system has deteriorated this far? Canada > Post would be quicker. > A while ago, Blake Maybank (I think it was) commented that NatureNS is > not archived and therefore not searchable, and suggested to consider > that the list be switched to some other carrier that does have these > facilities. Is it time to consider this seriously, for the > additional reason of the current variable and sometimes extreme > delays? I'm not technically well informed on this to know how much > trouble this would be, or who would get stuck with the job, but some > people on the list seem to be knowledgeable about the technicalities. > Anyone want to bite into this one again? Or is the performance likely > to get back to where it was a few weeks back? > Steve > Halifax > > On 6-Dec-06, at 9:54 AM, Don MacNeill wrote: > >> Just a note for people to check the dates that messages were sent to >> NatureNS. This note from Dorothy relates to a Monday siting but wasn't >> received until Wednesday. I sent one at 03:30 PM re our sighting on >> Tuesday >> which hasn't appeared yet although it was sent to NS-RBA at the same >> time >> and appeared there immediately. On the other hand, one from Jim Wolford >> later yesterday showed up right away. >> >> I recommend that any of you that are interested in timely information on >> bird sightings join the NS-RBA. >> >> Now we'll see when this message eventually arrives at NatureNS. >> >> Don >> >> Don MacNeill > > >
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