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: Flood of old emails from this list Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:35:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqtazte6.wl%lists@groll.co.za> References: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com> 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 1291957969 16799 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 05:12:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:12:49 +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 06:12:44 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 1PQvHf-0003C1-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:12:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQvHe-00021K-3A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:12:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50534 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQnFx-0002Ri-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQlL5-0001Rh-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([166.84.7.40]:34542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQlL5-0001RX-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:35:35 -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 62B885FE13 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 20:35:29 +0200 (SAST) In-Reply-To: <302ce978-eaee-44de-bd0c-a42478d3cde4@21g2000prv.googlegroups.com> 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:77355 Archived-At: On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:45 -0800 (PST), LanX = wrote: > 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 >=20 > 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. >=20 > Apparently gnu.org has a problem, I remember the server being offline > last week, so probably the restart broke something. >=20 > The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to > switch to a newsreader. >=20 > The worst case can be to write a spam-filter. >=20 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 -- 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.