Re: Flood of old emails from this list

[Tyler Smith]

LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 9 Dez., 13:39, ken <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote:
>> Yesterday I found a couple thousand emails in my inbox from this list...
>> going back into August.  I'm on several other mailing lists and none of
>> them did this, so I don't think the problem was with my mailserver
>> (hosted remotely by my ISP).  Has anyone else experienced this
>
> yes some people are complaining but I don't have this problem, since
> I'm not on the mailinglist, but checking the newsgroup via google-
> groups.
>
> Apparently gnu.org has a problem, I remember the server being offline
> last week, so probably the restart broke something.
>
> The only recommendation I can give is to leave the mailinglist and to
> switch to a newsreader.
>

The problem exists on gmane too, at least for me. Nearly a thousand
messages waiting to be read today, stretching back months.