From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Massive uptick in traffic? Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:08:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwu659u5.wl%lists@groll.co.za> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291968531 20923 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 08:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:08:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 09:08:48 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 1PQy23-0007Gu-UK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:08:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQy23-0006wr-Dy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40653 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQy1h-0006tP-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQy1d-0002vS-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([166.84.7.40]:38234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQy1d-0002ur-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za.groll.co.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97825FE13 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:08:18 +0200 (SAST) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/24.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:77380 Archived-At: On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:06:28 -0500, Andrew Suttles wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Tim Visher wrote= : > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Since yesterday at about noon I've noticed a _massive_ uptick in > > traffic on the mailing list. =C2=A0It all appears legitimate but it's > > strange nonetheless as I've been subscribed for years now and I'm use= d > > to getting anywhere between 10 and 20 mail messages a day. =C2=A0Righ= t now > > I seem to be getting anywhere between 10 and 20 messages every 5 > > minutes. > > > > Has anyone else noticed this? >=20 >=20 > YES! Yes. There is another thread entitled "flood" of mails (which may be lost in the mass of messages). Basically, it seems that the usenet<->mail gateway has been broken for some months now and is only now sending out all the old usenet messages that never made it to the mail subscribers. Wish a list administrator would post an explanation to the list though. Cheers, Jonathan -- jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za has_one { :blog =3D> "http://bloggroll.com" } Reine, reine gueux =C3=A9veille Gomme =C3=A0 gaine, en horreur, taie.