Because of a problem related to the fix to our MTA servers
last week, one of the servers, which was supposed to be
fully offline, was still accepting messages (but not sending
them out).
As a consequence, approximately 7% of messages that entered
Groups last week were never actually posted to the group
archive or distributed via email. This includes messages
that were sent via email, through posts on the site, as well
as messages that moderators approved.
The good news is that the problem should now be fully
resolved and no messages sent today (7/18) should be
affected. In addition, the messages that were stuck on the
"out of rotation" server are being posted to the group
archive and emailed out.
The bad news is that because of the sheer number of messages
that were stuck, it's going to take at least another day for
these messages to all be sent and some of the sent messages
will then have been delayed for up to a week. Plus, given
this long delay, some users will have reposted the messages
themselves to the group already, which means that the
delayed message will then seem like a duplicate when it
arrives.
Our apologies for any inconvenience and confusion caused by
this error, which was ultimately caused by the combination
of the mistake with the server and a failure of the
monitoring systems meant to detect such problems. We are
already in the process of reviewing our systems to make sure
a mistake like this never happens again.
- Yahoo! Groups Team
Monday, July 18, 2011 10:31 PM
