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Re: Flood of old emails from this list
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Flood of old emails from this list |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:32 +0200 |
> 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...