ADMINISTRAVIA: list hiccup

[David Sowder]

There was a list "hiccup" for several weeks, apparently caused by the OS 
upgrade I did a few weeks back.  I didn't upgrade the Mailman software, 
but apparently there was a dependency not covered by the Debian packages 
that caused all messages sent to the list to be shunted with a Unicode 
processing failure.

I believe the complete backlog of messages has now been processed, 
though I skipped a few messages that appeared to be of the "is the list 
broken" variety, including a test message I sent this morning.

Thanks to David Morrison, who got me started looking at the problem.  
I'll be putting more monitoring mechanisms in place to hopefully better 
see the difference between failure and a simply quiet list.  I guess 
being a sysadmin by trade doesn't mean your own servers are perfect... :)

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David R. Sowder
Linux Systems Administrator (Software Systems Specialist II)
Office of Information Technology
University of Texas at Arlington
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