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From: Young, Derrick (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 15:39:01 EDT
Hello World Cruising list members.
As many of you are aware, there have been multiple postings of the same
WC email over the last 2 days. This was due to a "bug" at YahooGroups
which hosts the World Cruising email list.
It appears to be related to a recent upgrade to their servers (see
below). It also appears that the "bug" has been fixed.
Those of us that act as the moderators of the group will continue to
monitor the situation to see if it continues.
This happened with the majority of the email lists that YahooGroups
hosts (including backyard boat builders, multihulls, microcruising and
some of the medical groups that I monitor). Many groups received many
more than the 9 or so duplicates that the WC list received.
Fair winds and smooth sailing,
Derrick Young
(one of several World Cruising moderators)
PS: Here is what YahooGroups posted on the Group Leader Blog:
>Duplicate Messages and Email Delivery
>Update (8:00 am PST, 3/29): A fix was pushed at midnight (Pacific Time)
>that we believe has resolved the problem for messages submitted after
that
>time. However, it is possible that some users of some groups may have
>continued to receive duplicates of messages that were posted before
>midnight.
>
>We're aware of the duplicate message bug that began affecting groups
today
>(Wednesday, March 28th) and are working to resolve the issue (a side
>effect of this bug is that some messages are also being delayed). We
have
>actually pushed two fixes already, but we are aware that some groups
are
>still experiencing the problem and that more needs to be done to fully
>resolve the issue.
>
>There is, however, one silver lining to this bug. It was the result of
our
>latest system updates intended to improve email delivery speeds. So
once
>the bugs are resolved, we should see a significant reduction in the
time
>it takes to deliver messages to Yahoo! Groups members.
>
>We will update this blog entry as soon as we have more definitive
>information on the status of this issue.
>
>Thank you and our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the
duplicate
>messages.
>
>The Yahoo! Groups Team
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