At about 3pm Thrusday afternoon, John Hammond of UConn and Jim Owen of Yale reported to me some problems they were experiencing with files originating at Marist. Since LISTSERV seemed to be a large portion of the problem files, I took LISTSERV offline at about that time. It would accept commands, but not distribute files. Approximately 2 hours later we were able to identify the problem and correct it. We have identified the problem as having been a human error in attempting to deal with network problems. We have identified the problem as having started at 11:46am EST on 29MAR94 and ending on 15:52 EDT on 07APR94. The best pattern I can use describe the problem is random. Files that were queued at 15 minute intervals were at risk. We have been able to identify that 3488 files were lost, but we are unable to identify what they contained. We know some of them were routing tables, and we regenerated them, and they have all been reshipped. Others would be mail for lists with peers at Marist. Below is a table showing the number of files lost on each day. We apologize for this inconveinance, and have taken steps to prevent it from happening again in the future. If there are any questions, please feel free to direct them to me. /ahw Cumulative Cumulative DATE Frequency Percent Frequency Percent ---------------------------------------------------- 940329 178 5.1 178 5.1 940330 22 0.6 200 5.7 940331 70 2.0 270 7.7 940401 391 11.2 661 19.0 940402 22 0.6 683 19.6 940403 2 0.1 685 19.6 940404 45 1.3 730 20.9 940405 257 7.4 987 28.3 940406 1049 30.1 2036 58.4 940407 1452 41.6 3488 100.0