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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
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@ 2010-12-09 14:11 ` LanX
  2010-12-09 17:30   ` suvayu ali
                     ` (5 more replies)
  0 siblings, 6 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: LanX @ 2010-12-09 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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.

The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to
switch to a newsreader.

The worst case can be to write a spam-filter.

HTH
 rolf


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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 14:11 ` Flood of old emails from this list LanX
@ 2010-12-09 17:30   ` suvayu ali
  2010-12-09 17:30   ` Peter Dyballa
                     ` (4 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: suvayu ali @ 2010-12-09 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs mailing list

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM, LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I am experiencing this too, And because of all these emails I can't follow
when a "truly" new post is made. :( I use Gmail for reading and
posting.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.



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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 14:11 ` Flood of old emails from this list LanX
  2010-12-09 17:30   ` suvayu ali
@ 2010-12-09 17:30   ` Peter Dyballa
  2010-12-09 18:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
                     ` (3 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Peter Dyballa @ 2010-12-09 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LanX; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


Am 09.12.2010 um 15:11 schrieb LanX:

> Apparently gnu.org has a problem, I remember the server being offline
> last week, so probably the restart broke something.


It had. Now it's delivering all the eMails it "cached" since spring...

--
Greetings

   Pete

Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
				– Anthony's Law of Force




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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 14:11 ` Flood of old emails from this list LanX
  2010-12-09 17:30   ` suvayu ali
  2010-12-09 17:30   ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2010-12-09 18:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
  2010-12-10  9:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
  2010-12-09 18:32   ` Tyler Smith
                     ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-12-09 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> 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...



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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 14:11 ` Flood of old emails from this list LanX
                     ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2010-12-09 18:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-12-09 18:32   ` Tyler Smith
  2010-12-09 22:38     ` Peter Dyballa
  2010-12-09 18:35   ` Jonathan Groll
       [not found]   ` <mailman.36.1291942792.5417.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tyler Smith @ 2010-12-09 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to
> switch to a newsreader.
>

The problem exists on gmane too, at least for me. Nearly a thousand
messages waiting to be read today, stretching back months.





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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 14:11 ` Flood of old emails from this list LanX
                     ` (3 preceding siblings ...)
  2010-12-09 18:32   ` Tyler Smith
@ 2010-12-09 18:35   ` Jonathan Groll
       [not found]   ` <mailman.36.1291942792.5417.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
  5 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Groll @ 2010-12-09 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:45 -0800 (PST), LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to
> switch to a newsreader.
> 
> The worst case can be to write a spam-filter.
> 

I too received approx. 1360 old list mails (and it does seems like
these mails were never sent to me originally).

It also seems that all of these mails were sent to a usenet newsgroup
originally (from reading the Mail Header fields) and not directly to
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org which makes me think the problem may lie with a
usenet-mail gateway.

Cheers,
Jonathan
--
jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za
has_one { :blog => "http://bloggroll.com" }
Reine, reine gueux éveille
Gomme à gaine, en horreur, taie.



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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 18:32   ` Tyler Smith
@ 2010-12-09 22:38     ` Peter Dyballa
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Peter Dyballa @ 2010-12-09 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tyler Smith; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


Am 09.12.2010 um 19:32 schrieb Tyler Smith:

> Nearly a thousand messages waiting to be read today, stretching back  
> months.


*Maybe* one third of this...

--
Greetings

   Pete

What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software  
'releases.'  Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of  
designers and quality assurance people in its wake.




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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
  2010-12-09 18:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-12-10  9:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-12-10  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:32 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> It's all over now, btw.

Famous last words...

It's still not over, it seems, but at least I get much fewer messages
than a day or two ago.



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* Re: Flood of old emails from this list
       [not found]   ` <mailman.36.1291942792.5417.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
@ 2010-12-10 23:01     ` Jason Earl
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Jason Earl @ 2010-12-10 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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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