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Re: Flood of old emails from this list


From: Jason Earl
Subject: Re: Flood of old emails from this list
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:01:27 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, Dec 09 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:45 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> On 9 Dez., 13:39, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote:
>> > Yesterday I found a couple thousand emails in my inbox from this list...
>> > going back into August.  I'm on several other mailing lists and none of
>> > them did this, so I don't think the problem was with my mailserver
>> > (hosted remotely by my ISP).  Has anyone else experienced this
>> 
>> yes some people are complaining but I don't have this problem, since
>> I'm not on the mailinglist, but checking the newsgroup via google-
>> groups.
>> 
>> Apparently gnu.org has a problem, I remember the server being offline
>> last week, so probably the restart broke something.
>
> It's not a problem with gnu.org.  The NNTP server used for the news
> to maillist gateway suddenly delivered a bunch of old messages that
> were never seen on the mailing list before.
>
> It's all over now, btw.
>
>> The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to
>> switch to a newsreader.
>
> No, thanks, with all the spam that's flooding news servers these
> days...

Don't judge Usenet by what you see on Google Groups (or whatever it is
called these days).  eternal-september.org does a fine job of just
delivering the Usenet I want, and the price is right too.

Jason


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