Jeffrey Lomas, Manager of Technical Services Group at OASIS,
was able to confirmed the reasons behind the quiet spell
and thanked those who helped resolve the problem:
On November 30th, unauthorized access was gained to the
list, and the entire subscriber database was maliciously deleted. OASIS
promptly investigated the incident, closed the security hole and
restored the list.
I would like to thank those of the XML-DEV community, OASIS staff, legal
council, and law enforcement who contributed to the fast resolution of
this situation and helped restore XML-DEV services.
Lomas also stressed that supporting the XML-DEV list was high priority.
The list has now been restored, so normal service should have resumed.
Update: Several people have reported that they are still not receiving messages from XML-DEV, indicating that the list has not been correctly restored. To check your current subscription status use the XML.org subscription manager.
Normal service has not been resumed - at least not for all subscribers. I suggest you add to the article information to assist subscribers to re-subscribe. The recovery process hasn't worked in my case, and perhaps in many others.
Thanks
Andrew Watt