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Re: ghost posts
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:20:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.test, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> > So i'm getting posts from as far back as 1999 in my email. bet this
> > doesn't work though
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> Oh my, that's no good. Hmm, the file that tracks per-group article
> counts for outgoing email seems to have gone wrong -- it was actually
> empty, which caused it to start emailing everything out again from
> scratch (back to 1998, or whatever was the first message in each group). I've
> restored it from a recent backup, and the duplicates should stop
> soon.
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> I think this is what prevented indexing of new NNTP articles -- it was
> busy (re)mailing out every article that had ever been posted (to people
> subscribed to news by mail).
So far, my mailbox has 8200 messages in it, and still counting. My Sidekick
couldn't keep up.
Jennifer
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