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Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:48:27 GMT
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On 6/10/26 1:08 PM, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Thank you, Nathan! I think we have our smoking gun.
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> Inside an older snapshot, I just did this:
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> $ 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 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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> Hits on that string are in files numbered 1, 2, and 37. Bingo.
Huh. I wonder why that message 37 got an Expires header, but no others?
Copy/paste remnant??
> A wider grep found no other articles (other than the 1/2 automated ones) having
> Expires headers.
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> Although I'm puzzled by why those automated messages had expiry dates on them
> at all (I don't remember adding them and don't know why 2010 was chosen instead
> of something like 2999), this does put my mind at ease about this cluster of
> articles, because this definitely wasn't some random spooky disk issue! :-)
I'm not sure why, but I am pretty sure you did it on purpose:
https://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=38
:-)
> Jerry also noticed the following were missing (and restored them):
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> lugnet.announce.brickset:3
> lugnet.disney:125
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> The disappearance of those is still a bit of a mystery.
Yeah, they do break the pattern, don't they? Although those messages may
have disappeared at some other time. I'm not subscribed to those groups,
so I wouldn't know whether they were there recently.
--
N. W. Perry
a/k/a "Plastikean"
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| (...) 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 (...) (2 weeks ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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| (...) 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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