Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bionet!dlgm.daresbury.ac.uk!GEW
From: GEW@dlgm.daresbury.ac.uk (Royd Whittington)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Error messages on BIOSCI: YEAST and METHODS
Message-ID: <21.JUL.1989.18:12:51.GEW@UK.AC.DARESBURY.DLGM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 18:12:00 GMT
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The cause of the problems we have experienced over the past two days on these
two bulletin boards have now been identified and measures taken to avoid a
similar occurence in future.

The problem involved an interaction between computers with full disk quotas,
lists which should have been removed and mail servers re-sending error
messages. A combination of effects led to at least 180 error messages being
generated and problems speading from YEAST to METHODS.

In fact, YEAST is a moribund list and should not be used.

Thanks for your patience,

Royd Whittington
SERC Daresbury Laboratory,
UK