 | | LUGNET Guide updates (Wed 10 Jun 2026)
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This is a daily report of recent changes made to the data in the (URL) LUGNET Guide>. No new sets No updated sets (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics, lugnet.admin.database, FTX)
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| | News/Discussion Group Traffic (Wed 10 Jun 2026)
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This is a traffic report for the news/discussion groups on LUGNET. The table below, based on 5-minute snapshots, shows how many new messages have recently been posted. Messages which have been crossposted are counted once for each group in which (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics)
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| | News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Wed 10 Jun 2026)
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This is a daily snapshot of the numbers of e-mail subscribers to LUGNET news/discussion groups. The number shown next to each group is the number of e-mail addresses on the outgoing mailing list for that group. The histograms on the far left (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics)
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| | Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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(...) Oops, I just found another missing message: lugnet.announce:37 So that may be a worthwhile idea, as there are almost certainly more. By the way, the subject of that message was "Disclosure of your real name"--I was just trying to figure out (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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Todd, thanks for the pointer - I have checked the directory and the last cancel request in there came in back in 2008 (!) so I think it can be ruled out that it happened via that route. I'm putting aside an archive of the last backup before the fix (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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(...) One thing worth a quick check inside is the directory news/art/control If the articles were cancelled maliciously from the outside by forgery (somehow) of cancel-request messages from <news@lugnet.com>, this directory would contain a log of (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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(...) Aw, man, I hear that. If only we'd kept a fork of RTL on here as an archive -- then it would still all be accessible. I think that was actually suggested or considered at one point, but the problem was huge volumes of spam, which was one of (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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(...) Thanks for the quick restoral, Jerry! I wonder if it's possible to do a 'diff' on the tree of articles (old/new, where "old" points at the backup) to see if any others accidentally went missing (ignoring files that match the name "1" or "2")? (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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(...) It's a pretty funny coincidence, actually. I'd been going over old archives of RTL(1) and then more recently LUGNET(2) as it came into being in 1998. At the same time, I happened to be chatting with Todd about something completely unrelated, (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Removal of Ads from LUGNET
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(...) Hi Suz, yeah, the ads became more and more annoying as well as disconnected to the other LUGNET content - if they can't provide delivery of relevant ads, we're better off not placing ads at all. Ads actually used to be sort of relevant and (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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