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  Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
 
(...) 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 (4 weeks ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  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)

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