Email Delays - Explanaton

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the YahooGroups People....

M.




Hi Folks,

Should have posted this earlier, but I wanted to let everyone know that we
are aware of the delays in email delivery that are affecting many groups
right now. The problem is not related to any of the database and hardware
work we were doing earlier in the year.
Rather, the primary cause is the "My Wife virus
(http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_138027.htm),
which has caused a huge spike
in the number of emails sent to Yahoo! Groups. This spike has gone beyond
the capacity of our current systems to handle, which is causing the delays
in email delivery.

We have already taken two steps to address the issue, which has begun to
reduce the number of delays:
- We are dropping (i.e. not delivering) all outgoing email that includes
the
virus (in other words, we are not sending infected messages to groups).
- We have added additional server capacity

And we are planning to increase that capacity even more. However, until the
virus has fully played itself out or more ISPs have taken steps to reduce
the amount of email they are sending to us (by dropping messages that
contain the virus rather than forcing us to do it), there may continue to
be
some delays.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

- Gordon
Yahoo! Groups Team