Re: Flood of old emails from this list

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

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
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