- From: Simon J. Hernandez <simon@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:15:45 -0500 (EST)
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: <sysreq@w3.org>, <ij@w3.org>
Hi Martin. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Martin Duerst wrote: > > Dear sysreq, > > I suddenly noticed yesterday that I'm no longer getting any > mail from www-tag. The last mail I got is on March 5th, > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Mar/0009.html. > Nevertheless, > http://cgi.w3.org/team-bin/MailingListQuery.pl?queryList=www-tag > claims that I'm subscribed. > There haven't been too many mails on www-tag since then, but > many enough to make this really suspicious. The last one is > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Mar/0024.html. > > [One could also say that there are so few mails these days > on www-tag for that itself to be suspicious.] > > Please investigate and fix this problem. I believe the problem may have been (it has now been corrected) that there was an unbalanced, extraneous ">" in one of the addresses recently added to the list dist file. frink: /home/lists/www-tag> grep ">" dist guido.grassel@nokia.com> frink: /home/lists/www-tag> ls -al dist -rw-rw-rw- 1 ot lists 5716 Mar 17 12:17 dist It would appear that the problem existed before the last recorded mtime of the file. The below indicates that Guido attempted to subscribe, sent a flawed subscription, then corrected it a few seconds later. I don't know if this is the actual flow of things, but that is the external appearance. frink: /home/lists/www-tag> grep grassel log subscribe: guido.grassel@nokia.com> by: guido.grassel@nokia.com Wed Mar 5 11:20:24 EST 2003 subscribe: guido.grassel@nokia.com by: guido.grassel@nokia.com Wed Mar 5 11:20:32 EST 2003 I have removed the character and mail should resume normal delivery to the list. This breakage, in response to your latter question, would have indeed hindered normal delivery. However the dist file is edited, specail care should be taken to not inadvertantly insert extaneous characters. Simon -- Simon J. Hernandez | http://people.w3.org/simon/ | simon@w3.org World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 200 Technology Square NE43-340 Cambridge, MA 02139-3579 USA Voice: +1.617.253.2920 Fax: +1.617.258.5999
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