[volunteers] Resubscribing to the SVLUG List

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Eric Holzhauer (eric.holzhauer at gmail.com):

> Hello Rick,
> 
> Is resubscribing the best way to solve
> the fact that I haven't gotten any
> messages from the SVLUG list since
> August 4?

Hi, Eric!  Thanks for mentioning the problem.   Let's see:

OK, first and most obvious check performed:  The roster still shows
eric.holzhauer at gmail.com as a subscribed user who does _not_ have the
'nomail' flag set.

And there _most_ definitely have been postings to the mailing list since
August 4th.

[rick at linuxmafia]
~ $ ssh lists.svlug.org
Enter passphrase for key '/home/rick/.ssh/id_dsa': 
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-95-generic i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Sat Sep 10 07:07:27 2016 from linuxmafia.com
rick at lists:~$ su -
Password: 
root at lists:~# chroot /var/old-svlug-rfs/
lists:/# cd /var/local/mailman/logs/
lists:/var/local/mailman/logs# ls -al
ls: unrecognized prefix: rs
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
total 211320
drwxrwsr-x    4 root     mailman      4096 Jul  7 23:48 .
drwxrwsr-x   21 root     root         4096 Jul  7 23:27 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   9525681 Oct 28 12:54 bounce
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman   2585675 Oct 29 12:13 error
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     34002 Jan  8  2010 fromusenet
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman    281391 Oct  1 05:00 locks
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mailman        54 Jul  7 23:48 mem
-rw-rw-r--    1 www-data mailman     65725 Sep 26 21:54 mischief
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Oct 17  2003 old2
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Feb 23  2005 old3
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman  21072139 Oct 29 11:29 post
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman    508138 Aug 31 23:39 qrunner
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman  85313650 Oct 29 15:19 smtp
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman  73065589 Jul  1 05:00 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   3337813 Oct 29 15:19 subscribe
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman  20298458 Oct 29 16:13 vette
lists:/var/local/mailman/logs# grep -r eric.holzhauer at gmail.com * | less 

bounce:Mar 10 19:15:17 2013 (19470) svlug: eric.holzhauer at gmail.com bounce score: 1.0
bounce:Jul 21 10:34:37 2013 (19470) svlug: eric.holzhauer at gmail.com has stale bounce info, resetting
bounce:Jun 16 01:12:25 2015 (1377) svlug: eric.holzhauer at gmail.com has stale bounce info, resetting
bounce:Jun 09 07:32:22 2016 (1360) svlug: eric.holzhauer at gmail.com has stale bounce info, resetting
bounce:Oct 28 09:49:45 2016 (1349) svlug: eric.holzhauer at gmail.com has stale bounce info, resetting

post:Aug 21 10:19:37 2008 (1269) post to svlug from eric.holzhauer at gmail.com, size=4475, message-id=<99a1d39e0808211018g51e47a0r7baebcade0d76a34 at mail.gmail.com>, success
post:Aug 21 10:39:46 2008 (1269) post to svlug from eric.holzhauer at gmail.com, size=7155, message-id=<99a1d39e0808211038p65510b24r9c7d302622892736 at mail.gmail.com>, success

So, Mailman _thought_ you're in the system post-August, but thinks there
was something wonky with your bounce score.

Yes, I'm guessing -- just a silly wild-assed guess, mind you -- that it
wouldn't be a bad idea _at all_ to just see if unsubscribing and
resubscribing you might do the trick.

See, here's where I am going to give you the broader picture (more than
you asked for), both for your knowledge and to reach people in the CC:
The mailing list server is decrepit.  It's _very_ credible that
Mailman's 'pickled' Python files, such as the subscriber records, are dodgy.
Frankly, the lists.svlug.org virthost needs a software rebuild.  And
this is likewise not news.

For a long time, I have lacked the time to deal with this, and that
isn't going to change soon.  I've made sure the remaining other SVLUG
volunteers are aware of this -- again, for a long time -- and nobody
else is picking up the ball.  So, sorry about that, but I cannot carry
this whole thing by myself.

To help out, I've just manually unsubscribed you from
svlug at lists.svlug.org, then added you back again.  I hope that helps!