FW: Yahoo Email Delays

[Guest guest]

Got this from my home-ed group….

Melody

--- Email

Delays

Date: Wed, 25 Jan

2006 21:53:11 -0000

From: Gordon

Hi Folks,

Should have posted this earlier, but I wanted to

let everyone know

that we are aware of the delays in email delivery

that are affecting

many groups right now. The problem is not related

to any of the

database and hardware work we were doing earlier

in the year.

Rather, the primary cause is the " My Wife

virus

(http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_138027.htm),

which has caused a

huge spike in the number of emails sent to Yahoo!

Groups. This spike

has gone beyond the capacity of our current

systems to handle, which

is causing the delays in email delivery.

We have already taken two steps to address the

issue, which has

begun to reduce the number of delays:

- We are dropping (i.e. not delivering) all

outgoing email that

includes the virus (in other words, we are not

sending infected

messages to groups).

- We have added additional server capacity

And we are planning to increase that capacity even

more. However,

until the virus has fully played itself out or

more ISPs have taken

steps to reduce the amount of email they are

sending to us (by

dropping messages that contain the virus rather

than forcing us to

do it), there may continue to be some delays.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

- Gordon

Yahoo! Groups Team

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Melody. I was wonderin' what the

deal-e-o was. Jackie and I were talking about it on the phone earlier

today. Some of the emails sent out by loop members are showing up in

my inbox several hours later, or in some cases, the next day. It's

good to know it isn't a problem with MY email program.

**NOTE TO EVERYONE** If we aren't responding to

an email that you've sent to the list, we might not have rec'd it yet.

hugs,

janet