 | | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) 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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) 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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) 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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) Yes, thank you! Although I'm not sure we would have missed that one from /disney… ;-) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) 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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) Thank you, Jerry! <3 <3 <3 --Todd (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) "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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
|
|
(...) 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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Posts expiring?
|
|
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 (...) (4 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Posts expiring?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Change in News Display Behavior
|
|
Hi Jerry, Reporting something here that I think might be a recent bug: Even when I'm signed in, I'm not seeing the Author field in the headers on any new posts. On old posts, however, the Author field does show up. In looking at the raw message (...) (11 years ago, 7-Oct-15, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Not getting authentication e-mails
|
|
Is there a problem with authentication e-mails? I've posted two messages via NNTP yesterday and not yet received an authentication e-mail, plus I submitted a multiple post authentication request from the web site and have not yet received that (...) (15 years ago, 29-Sep-11, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Not getting authentication e-mails
|
|
Is there a problem with authentication e-mails again? I've posted twice via NNTP and not yet received an authentication e-mail, plus I submitted a multiple post authentication request from the web site and have not yet received that e-mail either. (...) (18 years ago, 22-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | nntp posting not working
|
|
I tried to post via nntp twice today in lugnet.trains. I haven't received any confirmation/authentication messages. Frank (18 years ago, 16-Apr-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: NNTP service down again?
|
|
(...) As a matter of fact it was an email congestion problem, the NNTP server itself was entirely fine all the time. Anyway, I got the issue resolved, with some 20,000 spam emails down the drain. Sorry for all inconveniences you may have (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: NNTP service down again?
|
|
(...) Yes, I too can post NNTPmessages now. Thanks for repairing it! -Rob (18 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: NNTP service down again?
|
|
(...) Looks like it's up and running again. At last. Tore (Tue 12/2 11:12 CET) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: NNTP service down again?
|
|
Posting for Tore Eriksson, as he has been having the same issues and sent me an email: (...) Same here. I still waiting for confirmation emails to 14 posts (12 to off-topic.test and two to lugnet.cad) But then how did you manage to post to Lugnet??? (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | NNTP service down again?
|
|
I'm not receiving my confirmation emails. Its been happening for about a week AFAIK. Thanks, Rob (18 years ago, 6-Feb-08, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| |
| | Re: Getting Error on Lugnet Main Page
|
|
(...) Looks like there's a bug in the code that's generating the sidebar. As a temporary fix (until the underlying problem is repaired), I'm running an automatic "fixer" once a minute that should repair the autogenerated code. So, the problem may (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)
|
