From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flood of old emails from this list
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8362v23j7j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com>
> 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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.46.1291898383.22010.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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 [this message]
2010-12-10 9:40 ` 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>
2010-12-10 23:01 ` Jason Earl
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