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In lugnet.admin.general, "Todd Lehman" <tsl@tsl.bu.edu> wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, "N. W. Perry" <nateomatic5@netscape.net> wrote:
> > I just noticed that articles n=1 and n=2 seem to have expired from each
> > newsgroup. Those are the Welcome/charter and Terms of Use posts, respectively.
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> Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing.
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 something to page through all of the newsgroups and remove articles 1
and 2 indeed (and yes, they have been _removed_, not just renamed).
Luckily, this is a cloud hosting platform where we have daily backups - so I
have just recovered all the missing "1" and "2" articles and hope things are
back in shape now.
Thanks for noticing, I would have no means of knowing (even after all these
years).
Regards,
Jerry
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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, (...) (2 months 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")? (...) (2 months 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 (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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 (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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