In the process of catching up my mail backlog, I ran across several people's
notes of concern over the silence of the list last weekend.  Then I read a
note from Frank:
 
On Tue, 9 May 95 8:45:00 PDT Frank McConnell said:
>Well, I seem to have a big HP3000-L digest spanning from Friday
>morning through Monday night.  Not sure if you had to do anything,
>but thanks!
 
Well, it was nothing that *I* did :-)  But the short answer is that nothing
was lost, missing, AWOL, etc., just untimely.
 
The specific answer is that the number of spool files on utcvm exceeded a
threshold value that Listserv monitors to avoid the equivalent of an "Out
of spool space, all queues shut" in the MPE world (mail files are spool
files on this machine).  But the threshold value is a holdover of the old
days of IBM's VM/SP operating system where you could only have 9999 spool
files on the system.  The newer VM/ESA system allows 9999 spool files per
user.  We have adjusted Listserv's threshold values accordingly.
 
Listserv's silence was not noticed by the IBM crew until Monday morning,
when they gave it the command to go back online.  At that point the files
queued over the weekend were processed.
 
Sorry for any inconvenience for those of you concerned, and also for this
waste of bandwidth for those of you who aren't :-)  The problem has been
resolved and corrected.
 
[\] Jeff Kell, [log in to unmask]