From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Earl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flood of old emails from this list Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:01:27 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87lj3x9qrc.fsf@notengoamigos.org> References: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292024431 22914 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 23:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:40:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 11 00:40:27 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 1PRCZe-0003l8-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRCZd-0007sN-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0FVKPU0qlyJSJO113Vi4xA"; logging-data="27002"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+Kc0ASvCfpoASe73U1nLl" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFz UkdCAK7OHOkAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAAlw SFlzAAASmwAAEpsB4JJZDAAAAAl2cEFnAAAAMAAAADAAzu6MVwAAAaFJREFUSMe1VtuxxSAIzIz9 2Iyl2Aj1bBX0k5+LrwjGjJyPy2ROwtGNBJbVCwwwy1UNoOL3f+SBxkj15Lr4NsboN24DWMZxYQNA TjGmjC1gswJiqBbpDeANYMwXBFyAFB5L7ADMBcoSDgAFBSDHR2tA8ABMSB4AawB76pAnILsKx2lm 1VfpgUi3kxrySylRHdmQj40Jva2/jl8EY3Twv/phhsC9nIQR0hnAOUptYsL3RxvAk+YIH2AWsvTH GYBgKn8GaPYm5jNANaCQ8WfAzyH9x0crFfGl9X4QVdg8gEqN2KjBHi6V/iBq6iyAxTqd+Yvupwai VwM9LZkxQ6otihmS6H+mHlK5URwi0UQgWxHoxS5JagBSed7IzJRCallS2pg2QsamcGUFNSHgLZUv augJIUualv1Bv6+yVat1oeMq92s/mBBWQJH7dQX7CnpvWWs/4CazpHlB2RR1BFSzNGdIaTbbLil8 U76BKKU0GztapXP3C78bNYQ6MTQybY8OkIaITf9HPzyHkXE4YXs4mf5VDz+jAepj3RTQ3Ubv0SPy 9AcCrfKh0TBgvgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAxMC0wNC0wNVQxMzoyNDo0OS0wNjowMHrq 7NAAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMTAtMDQtMDVUMTM6MjQ6NDgtMDY6MDCtwF/YAAAAAElF TkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pme40C9/JE+K1DrBFHYHc9+Zt18= sha1:6HrW/jlYhmhtXpIsXn8a6LtnOHY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183159 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:77414 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 09 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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... 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