Possible issues with FreeBSD ports ML?

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 02/08/2019 00:24, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Philip,
>
> Thanks so much for your time. I don't know if anything was ever wrong or
> almost everyone on mailing lists just took a couple of days off, but
> traffic volume on the lists now looks completely normal and I received no
> responses of lost posts to ports.
>
> Thanks so much for taking the time to look at it and sorry for the noise.
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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>
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:00 AM Philip Paeps <philip at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-01 11:35:54 (+0530), Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> Over the past dy and a half there have been no posts on the ports
>>> list. The last user-posted message was on July 29 at 23:30:51. There
>>> was a message from portscout about 14 yours later, but nothing else.
>>> This is based on the contents of the ML archive, not just what I have
>>> been seeing. Others of the dozen FreeBSD lists I read have also been a
>>> bit quiet with only a very small number of posts.
>>> postmaster at freebsd.org is aware of what I have seen but have not been
>>> able to confirm a problem.
>>>
>>> If this message actually got to you and you have sent a message to
>>> ports or some other list after 16:00 UTC on July 30, please DO NOT
>>> reply to the list, but send me a note with the ML to which the post
>>> was sent and the time the post was sent (or your best guess) and/or
>>> postmaster at freebsd.org.  Mail log entries would be especially useful.
>>>
>>> Perhaps nothing is wrong, but to go two days with only about a dozen
>>> messages from several normally active lists like ports, current,
>>> stable, and x11.
>>>
>>> As I may be wrong and everyone who normally would post have all taken
>>> summer vacation at the same time. If so, I do apologize for wasting
>>> your time.
>> As far as postmaster can tell, mail is flowing normally.
>>
>> If your messages to FreeBSD mailing lists are bouncing or being delayed,
>> please try to reach out to postmaster at FreeBSD.org so we can investigate.
>>    Given the volume of mail that goes through FreeBSD.org, debugging
>> problems is difficult without at least some details about specific
>> messages or hosts to grep for.
>>
>> Philip [hat: postmaster]
>>
>> --
>> Philip Paeps
>> Senior Reality Engineer
>> Alternative Enterprises
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I was once told that in the beginning of each month there is a huge 
queue of monthly emails to be sent out and the mailserv is overloaded. 
If it's around that time then don't panic, wait 2-3 days and only worry 
if the issue persists after that.

GrzegorzJ