ADMIN: lost messages (fwd)
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From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com> Subject: ADMIN: lost messages Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
CPunks list administrators,
There appears to be an occasional breakdown in the list distribution/reflection. I am sometimes seeing responses to articles that I haven't received. For example, a message from spencer_ante@webmagazine.com has been the subject of several follow-ups (according to their In-reply-to fields, it is message ID <88256538.00787D24.00@pcwhub.pcworld.com>).
Yes, there are occassional breakdowns in the communications between the list remailers. The reason that there are several of them is if one goes down for more than a few minutes the whole lists doesn't go down which would occur if we were still on a single remailer. In cases such as this I would suggest checking the archives provided by a couple of sites (I thought since I don't check the archives).
Any clues?
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Jim Choate writes:
Yes, there are occassional breakdowns in the communications between the list remailers. The reason that there are several of them is if one goes down for more than a few minutes the whole lists doesn't go down which would occur if we were still on a single remailer.
I understand this rationale. But that doesn't explain what's happening to the missing messages. Is there a flaw in the distributor/reflector duplicate-filtering algorithms? Or is this a problem of certain messages being introduced into a node whose product does not get propagated to all subscribers of all the other nodes? Or are you saying that if ssz (say) goes down for a few minutes it forgets about any mail it has queued up for its counterparts at cyberpass and algebra (et al.)? -- Jeff
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