Re: Update your news reader to point to news.gmane.io

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> writes:

> I've been talking about a "success rate" in these posts -- by that I
> mean that I successfully added a list to the gmane-mx.org addresses.
> (And it's about 35%.)  But I really don't know how many lists are alive,
> so I don't know what the rate should be...
>
> However, I added some logging earlier today to see how many mails are
> arriving to gmane-mx.org vs the old gmane.org addresses, and that offers
> a different data set: It'll only say something about lists that are
> active enough to have a message sent today, though.
>
> 2600 messages arrived for gmane.org, and 16000 arrived for gmane-mx.org,
> which means that the success rate may be something like 85% instead.
>
> Even that's a number to be taken with some grains of salt: I've checked
> a few of the most active lists, and they are arriving to both -mx and
> not, so this means that the subscription was successful, while the
> unsubscription wasn't.
>
> The mysteries of email.
>
> There's about 10K messages in the outbound queue on the MTA, and the
> logs are full of stuff like:
>
> 2020-01-11 00:40:15 1iq3sA-0015qq-G7 H=lists.ozlabs.org [2401:3900:2:1::3] Network is unreachable
> 2020-01-11 00:48:53 1ip2uZ-000M04-0H H=smtp.trolltech.com [192.64.147.209] Connection timed out
> 2020-01-11 00:48:53 1ipOVN-000Nz2-Vx H=fly.osdn.org.ua [2600:9000:20a5:3600:6:479b:5680:93a1] Network is unreachable
> 2020-01-11 00:51:36 1ipNTx-0016GA-1r H=mx.spamcop.net [64.88.168.74] Connection timed out
> 2020-01-11 00:51:38 1ipON1-0012s3-73 H=inet-access.net [104.31.70.183] Connection timed out
>
> Which either means that the lists (and hosts) are gone, or that somebody
> is using RBLs for blocking network traffic, or they're using Fail2ban or
> something (see https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/10/spamtraps/).
>
> (I had to set the connection timeout way down to get any action on the
> mail queue.)
>
> Oh, and the most peculiar network action is from the IETF MTA: They have
> a limit of one mail per five minutes...  but they don't reject mails
> completely.  So there's still about 300 messages in the outbound queue
> to IETF.

Ah ah... IETF is naughty boy, bad...

> Once that's drained, I'll be moving the server over, I guess, to the
> projected moveover time is now...  Mondayish.

Mondayish!!! Wow Mondayish !!! Lars good thank you thank you!!!

Sincerely, Gmane-Gnus' fan Byung-Hee

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