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"Kaminsky,Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 3 May 2006 09:22:26 -0400
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Last night we had a relatively new list owner start subscribing people
to his list.  Bad part, he had several people to add, and he was adding
people one by one per mail, and several thousand addresses to add.
Eventually, he managed to fill the disk partition, causing all kinds of
havoc.

I looked around this morning to clean up, and noticed a lot of the
following:

3016	./ok002ad4dd.ddlist
3016	./ok003bd641.ddlist
3016	./ok00270983.ddlist
3016	./ok00105c43.ddlist
3008	./ok00610a19.ddlist
3008	./ok0056a7a7.ddlist
3008	./ok0033f7a5.ddlist
3008	./ok006bd895.ddlist
3008	./ok003abf97.ddlist
3000	./ok0060dcb0.ddlist
3000	./ok004ec7a7.ddlist
3000	./ok00679b33.ddlist
3000	./ok004f7b4d.ddlist
3000	./ok007a492a.ddlist
2992	./ok00321914.ddlist
2992	./ok0057db1c.ddlist
2992	./ok0024da51.ddlist
2992	./ok006a1cdb.ddlist
2992	./ok003b164c.ddlist
2992	./ok001b2df7.ddlist
2984	./ok00368759.ddlist
2984	./ok0031d313.ddlist

Just a sample, but we had over a thousand of these files floating
around, ranging from 3MB down to a few KB.  Looking through them seemed
to contain the subscription request, but I couldn't figure out why some
of these had ballooned to a few MB.  I've had to delete them now in
order to get the disk back to a workable size, but what would cause
these files to get so large?

Matt K.

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