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OT Re: introduction and a question or two...



I noticed that the mailer doesn't add the maillist
 name in the subject.

This, added to the large spam quantity I receive, 
 make missin the maillist message easy.

JM2C   Ciao.   Marco

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 03:47, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:10, Douglas F. Calvert wrote:
>  [...]
> > I will try and do that this weekend over thanksgiving break. Is their
> > any preference for what directory is used for the default directory?
> 
> I don't have such a preference myself, but others do.  Personally, I'd
> suggest you do what seems best to you rather than taking a straw poll:
> trying to find the One True Filesystem Layout is prone to generate more
> noise than light.
> 
> (0.0.6 will probably make file locations even more configurable, for
> people who want to put their keys in location A, their queues in
> location B, and their pidfiles in location C.)
> 
> > Should i mail the list when I have entries in the log file about servers
> > that can not be connected to? Or do you let these go for a while?
> 
> For the most part, those entries fall into two categories:
>    - Temporary outages: the server is unreachable for a while, but comes
> back online.  When it does, all pending messages are delivered.  This is
> nothing to worry about.
>    - Dead servers: These are caught by the directory server, and marked
> as 'not recommended' in the directory.  (Run 'mixminion list-servers'
> for a list.)   The long-dead servers are currently: cf, frell, and
> sushi.  They still appear in the directory because their current server
> descriptors don't expire until 11/28, 12/11, and 12/18 respectively. 
> The only reason that you're seeing messages sent to these servers is
> that the pingers are still generating them. This is still nothing to
> worry about.
> 
> On the other hand, a third category is *possible*, but has not yet been
> observed: a server might be consistently broken for you, but not appear
> as broken on the directory.  The directory updates daily; if you can't
> connect to a server _at all_ for a couple of days, and it doesn't appear
> as 'not recommended' on the directory, then it'd be worthwhile to mail
> the list and find out what's up.
> 
> Hope this helps,
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