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Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:10:26 GMT
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On 6/10/26 12:17 AM, Todd Lehman wrote:

I'm looking at a 3 Mar 2010 snapshot of the entire system, and I see that it was
a message that I posted on 6 Oct 1998.  It was still present in the proper place
in the filesystem as of 2010.  So we can say for absolute certain that it is an
error that the post is missing.  I never deleted/canceled it.

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 (it's back now), and all the other n=1 and
n=2 messages, have Expires headers set to 1/1/2010. I don't know if
that's something specific to these messages, or if it's just a
difference between the restored snapshot copy and the "current" copy. (I
don't see it in other unaffected messages, and I don't remember if this
header was present in these messages before they went missing.)

I also note that, so far, it's only messages sent by you/the server that
have disappeared (but the sample size is admittedly small).

--
N. W. Perry
a/k/a "Plastikean"



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  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 (...) (2 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)  

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  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 (...) (2 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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