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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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (4 weeks 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 (...) (4 weeks 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")? (...) (4 weeks 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, (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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