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(...) Yes, thank you! Although I'm not sure we would have missed that one from /disney… ;-) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Funny, I had just finished reading the first big round of discussion on this (Jan '99). At the time the major issue was cross-posting; RTL wasn't yet overtaken by spam, but mostly just auction postings and clueless newbies (the regulars all (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That message was definitely there just the other day, my newsreader downloaded it, marked it read, etc. (and I also specifically remember reading it). So it went AWOL the same time as those other ones on Monday. I notice that that message (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Thank you, Jerry! <3 <3 <3 --Todd (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) "odd" is a very fitting term I should say. I've done a compare with the oldest available live backup and found a total of _three_ articles missing, namely: ./lugnet/announce/brickset/3 ./lugnet/announce/37 ./lugnet/disney/125 These have now (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Wow, that's odd. Thanks for noticing and reporting. (...) Thanks again! I don't know if it's a clue that will be ultimately useful, but it's definitely intriguing. The post absolutely should not be missing, and its absence is indicative of a (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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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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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thanks! Just happy to know it's unintentional and not a sign of anything going away. Having this information still accessible is a wonderful thing; takes me back to better days of the Internet. :-) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing. (...) There's actually no expiry mechanism for LUGNET news articles. However, it's possible to cancel an article on a case-by-case basis using a script internally. The (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I'm sorry that the ads didn't work out. (though selfishly happy to see the site without them). :-) Thank you for all your work, Jerry. I'll be happy to send a donation. -Suz (...) (1 month ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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