[Foundation-l] Testing

[Marc Riddell]

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Please bear with me while I run a test of my e-mail service. Comcast has
>> been having problems for the past 24 hours & for some reason I haven't
>> received any posts from any of the various WP-related Mailing Lists.
>> 
>> Marc <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>
>> 
on 5/31/08 1:30 AM, Ryan at wiki.ral315 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I'm sending this to the whole list, in case anyone else is wondering why
> this may have happened to them.  Comcast's e-mail server's DNS records were
> briefly hijacked over the past few days:
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956165-7.html?tag=bl
> 
> This is probably what your problem was.  E-mails sent by the mailing list
> would almost certainly not have reached you during this outage.  Corrected
> DNS records should have circulated by now, and hopefully all Comcast users
> should be able to access their e-mail.

Thank you very much for this, Ryan. I spent nearly a hour last evening with
a Comcast engineer fiddling with my preferences & settings, and he never
even mentioned this! Well, for good or ill, I'm back in the loop :-)

Thanks, again,

Marc