(2004-02-09) Mailing list problems?

ruby-talk
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I’m getting hundreds of old (but recent) ML/NG messages. I don’t think
I’m getting any new ones. What on earth is going on? Does the gateway
software use continuations or something? ;>

Gavin

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Uggh! 457 new ruby talk messages this morning.

Is somebody working on this?

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On Monday 09 Feb 2004 7:07 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

I’m getting hundreds of old (but recent) ML/NG messages. I don’t think
I’m getting any new ones. What on earth is going on? Does the gateway
software use continuations or something? ;>

Gavin

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Hi,

From: “Gavin Sinclair” gsinclair@soyabean.com.au
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:07 PM

I’m getting hundreds of old (but recent) ML/NG messages. I don’t think
I’m getting any new ones. What on earth is going on? Does the gateway
software use continuations or something? ;>

eban stopped the torrent. Thank you very very much.

We must prevent the similar incident. We should move ruby-talk ML
to members only (not allow posting via comp.lang.ruby gateway)
next time.

Regards,
// NaHi

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I checked the newsgroup yesterday, and I got near 80 msgs this
morning. Seems normal to me.

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il Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:26:38 +0900, Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org ha scritto::

Uggh! 457 new ruby talk messages this morning.

Is somebody working on this?

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We are talking about the mailing list, rather than the newsgroup. I read all
my mail before geing to sleep last night, and this morning had 457 odd new
ruby messages, almost all are repeats of previous messages.

I assume something bad happened/is happening with the newsgroup<->mailing list
gateway

Andrew

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On Monday 09 Feb 2004 8:34 am, gabriele renzi wrote:

il Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:26:38 +0900, Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org > > ha scritto::

Uggh! 457 new ruby talk messages this morning.

Is somebody working on this?

I checked the newsgroup yesterday, and I got near 80 msgs this
morning. Seems normal to me.

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Your Assumption is right. I checked the logs, and it seems that the News → Mail Job
lost track of the Xref’s it had already seen several times.

I’m digging in the code atm (thanks god it’s written in Ruby), and I hope it’ll be
fixed soon.

Kind regards,
Dennis Oelkers

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In 200402090928.58589.andrew@walrond.org Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org wrote:

I assume something bad happened/is happening with the newsgroup<->mailing list
gateway

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Your Assumption is right. I checked the logs, and it seems that the News → Mail Job
lost track of the Xref’s it had already seen several times.

I’m digging in the code atm (thanks god it’s written in Ruby), and I hope it’ll be
fixed soon.

In the meantime, people using mutt can delete the duplicates with
T~= ;d

I just found out :).

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Ok, the problem now seems to be permanently fixed after I found the error.
Sadly the script ran amok 1h ago and resent duplicates of ~50 mails.
Sorry for that.

Kind regards,
Dennis Oelkers

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