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(...) That, or an insistent mind. ;-) (...) Yeah, this is what I was noticing earlier, that I thought might be a clue to the problem. (I now think it's a mirage, a nothing-burger.) "Recently added" turns out to be 9/30/98, two days after launch; (...) (1 month ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) You have a very keen eye! That is interesting and ironic indeed! The post says the feature "was recently added" (past tense), which means that lugnet.announce:37 should have had that header inserted. In fact, #36 and #38 (before and after) (...) (1 month ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Oh, here's what must the problem: this message (of all messages, irony of ironies) is missing its X-Real-Life-Name header. It must have suffered an existential crisis and imploded. :-D (1 month ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | LUGNET Guide updates (Thu 11 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, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics, lugnet.admin.database, FTX)
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| | News/Discussion Group Traffic (Thu 11 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, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics)
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| | News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Thu 11 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, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.statistics)
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(...) I wonder that, too. According to the articles, headers, it was posted via NNTP over TCP/IP using an NNTP client called Forte, rather than generated via script on the server via internal article injection like the 1/2 articles were. There's (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Huh. I wonder why that message 37 got an Expires header, but no others? Copy/paste remnant?? (...) I'm not sure why, but I am pretty sure you did it on purpose: https://news.lugnet....eral/?n=38 :-) (...) Yeah, they do break the pattern, don't (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Thank you, Nathan! I think we have our smoking gun. Inside an older snapshot, I just did this: $ cd news/art/lugnet/announce $ grep ^Expires: * 1:Expires: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT 2:Expires: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT 37:Expires: Fri, 1 (...) (1 month ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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| | 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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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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