Hello sysadmins, Unfortunately, it seems that messages are occasionally going missing from the archives on lists.gnu.org, even though they are being delivered.
Here is the example I have the most data for: on Wed 10 Aug 2011 03:28:00 AM PDT, Shailesh posted comment #8 on a savannah ticket, https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107667#comment8. This was received by me (and others) in email -- I will attach the text. It was Message-Id: <[email protected]>. However, looking at the thread index: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2011-08/threads.html it does not appear (the thread, "CLISP: Permission denied"), is about halfway down the page. All other comments in the thread are there, including several from Shailesh. Looking at the date index, for August 10: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2011-08/index.html Shailesh's message is also not there. (The message from him on August 11 is the next one, comment #9.) Bizarrely, it apparently did not reach mail-archive.com, either. It would be the next message from comment #7, http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17425.html but it jumps to comment #9, like our thread index, even though [email protected] is subscribed to savannah-hackers. I don't get that. It is also not in the mbox archive, /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/savannah-hackers.mbox. Shailesh reposted his comment exactly, as comment #11, to test if it would reach the archives this time. It did. So, as one might guess, it is not about the content but about something happening at the time of the mail processing. Now, the worst part: a Google search shows thousands of missing messages, past and present, even discounting google's overcounting of results and the likelihood that some of them are just threading computations going wrong. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Alists.gnu.org+threads.html+"message+not+available"&oq=site%3Alists.gnu.org+threads.html+"message+not+available"&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=19750l21000l0l21202l13l9l0l0l0l6l222l1231l2.6.1l9l0 Help? Thanks, Karl
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