[Meta-discussion] Backlogs and antique systems

[Rich Alderson]

Dear Readers:

We are now caught up from the backlog caused by my failure to take into account
a limitation of the Tops-20 filesystem, the absolute maximum number of files in
a single directory.

There are subscribers on about 170 different systems worldwide; to make list
processing simpler, for each outgoing message I create a separate queue file
for each system in the database; if there are enough messages, I create more
queue files than the queue directory can hold.  This occurred late last week.

Because of the logjam thus created, I could not respond to some of the early
queries about the list; I apologize to those who may have felt slighted by the
lack of an answer.

And so it goes...

								Rich Alderson
								list owner and
								moderator

P. S.  If there are any responses to this message, I will post a summary or a
hand-created digest of any that seem to be of general interest.  --rma