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?

Things get lost on occassion?


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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