Re: Flood of old emails from this list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:11:45 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 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.

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...