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From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
To: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Massive uptick in traffic?
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:17:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291922228.1990.5.camel@CASE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik__=AsaY2vqyOoZeZr=wnM44fbRhP+no4Qvc85@mail.gmail.com>

Hi;

Glad you posted.  I thought I was going crazy.

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 09:35 -0500, Tim Visher wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Since yesterday at about noon I've noticed a _massive_ uptick in
> traffic on the mailing list.  It all appears legitimate but it's
> strange nonetheless as I've been subscribed for years now and I'm used
> to getting anywhere between 10 and 20 mail messages a day.  Right now
> I seem to be getting anywhere between 10 and 20 messages every 5
> minutes.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> 

I have been getting 30 emacs help group messages or more, every hour or
so.  They started with dates as old as last May and are up to October
now.  I have 349 now in my junk box.  Expunged about 400 yesterday.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32
Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTik__=AsaY2vqyOoZeZr=wnM44fbRhP+no4Qvc85@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-09 17:33 ` Massive uptick in traffic? Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-10  0:44   ` Peter Dyballa
2010-12-09 19:17 ` William Case [this message]
2010-12-09 20:06 ` Andrew Suttles
2010-12-09 22:30   ` Burton Samograd
2010-12-10  8:08   ` Jonathan Groll
2010-12-09 20:59 ` PJ Weisberg

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