In article <b5rjg1tjfh5ek5kj4ev6b1hdck2jerr4mo@4ax.com>, f/fgeorge
<ffgeorge@yourplace.com> writes

The server status, at 13.40 UTC shows the "waiting for validation" queue
is now up to 1.186 million and rising.

According to the web page the outages over the next few days should
help start clearing those.

Yes I expect so, but they will nearly be at 1.2 million (double the
normal queue) when they bring the servers down at 18.00 hours UK local
time.
-- 
John Clark