Info copy for Forum subscribers using AOL who have reported problems getting
their email during the last few weeks or so.

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Subject: AOL bounces
 Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 01:18:20 -0500
   Resent-To: [email protected]
       From: Tim Pierce 

Hi, folks --

In the last week or two, AOL users have been experiencing more trouble than
usual delivering mail to RootsWeb.  Apparently AOL's mail servers have been
having difficulty establishing a connection to us, so AOLers (both listowners
and regular subscribers) have been getting bounces that say "could not deliver
mail for 3 days" when sending to RootsWeb.

To fix this, I've set up a secondary mail server for RootsWeb.  If AOL can't
deliver mail to our primary mail server, it should automatically try to deliver
to the secondary.  Since the two servers live on totally different networks, the
probability of being unable to deliver to *both* systems should be pretty low,
so I think the problem will mostly go away.

So, thanks for your bug reports, and let's see if this doesn't fix things for
your subscribers.

-- 
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades

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