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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Cc: "(ding)" <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: pgnus emergency?
Date: 13 May 1999 18:35:36 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <orpv44k5zr.fsf@lua.lbi.dcc.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "13 May 1999 10:53:53 -0400"

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On May 13, 1999, Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:

> * Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Thu, 13 May 1999
> | When I came in this morning, my *Group* buffer looked like this, where
> | groups with mail received their mail when I retrieved it this morning.

> | <snip>...
> |           *: nnml:wri.jokes

> I've seen this happen once before -- with a released version of Gnus.  I
> was never able to reproduce the phenomenon so I discounted it as a user
> error of some sort.

I sometimes get this when disk is full and gnus writes an incomplete
`active' file.  So I wrote the attached script, which has saved my
life several times already :-)

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~1999-05-13 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-13 14:17 Bill White
1999-05-13 14:53 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-05-13 21:35   ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]

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