Linux-mips.org users and mailing list subscribers have noticed it for a while - the email system was slowing down increasingly and had reached the point where email as old as from last September was finally delivered this week though 99%+ of email were being processed much faster. The reason for this was the due to another site being down for extended time a massive backlog of around 2 million emails had piled up on the linux-mips.org server machine which eventually brought a reasonably beefy machine running a rather fast mailer daemon to show occasional burn out syndromes. I've cleaned out the backlog and mail services should now hopefully be back to their usual performance. Ralf
