From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flood of old emails from this list Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:32 +0200 Message-ID: <8362v23j7j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291942863 29925 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 01:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:01:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 02:00:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQrM2-0006te-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:00:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQrM2-0000Ms-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:00:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47956 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQnP0-0001Qn-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQl2Y-0000yz-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQl2X-0000ys-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LD600100A20HG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.142.197]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LD6000Q3AR7X860@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77110 Archived-At: > From: LanX > Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:45 -0800 (PST) > > On 9 Dez., 13:39, ken 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...