JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to MATT MC_CARTHY:

 JH> Hi, Matt.

 JH> On 4/10, -=> MATT MC_CARTHY wrote to ALL <=-

 MM> Just wondering if anyone is here or my link is broken.  Two days with
 MM> _0_ messages seems odd.
 MM>      Thanks, M.

 JH> It was worse here at Docsplace- - about 4 dead days.  Last received
 JH> here was #5034 from Tom Walker on 4/6 and next was #5035 from _you_
 JH> on 4/10, and along with that, came about 310 _old_ messages (#5036-
 JH> #5344). Below is my question, and response I got from Ed Koon here
 JH> at Docsplace. 

 JH> - - -  JimH.

 JH> ===================================================================
 JH> =====  System: Doc's Place Bbs Online
 JH>    Area: Gen Chatter
 JH>    Date: 04-10-03 18:17
 JH>    From: ED KOON
 JH>      To: JIM HOLSONBACK
 JH>    Subj: RE: Something Amiss
 JH> -------------------------------------------------------------------
 JH> ----- On Apr 10, 2003 05:27pm, JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to ED KOON:

JH> Something seems to be amiss in the message base of the FidoNet TECH
JH> echo.  From msg 5034, datestamped 4/6 until today 4/10, nothing came in.
JH> Then today,  huge qwk packet, with msg number 5035 from moderator Matt
JH> McCarthy and dated 4/10, then came about 310 old messages, from 5036 to
JH> 5344, datestamped 1/24/03 thru 2/2/03, then 5345 and 5346 datestamped
JH> today 4/10.

JH> Similar situation in the Fidonet WIN95 echo, with 6619 current, 6620
JH> thru 6773 being old ones, and 6774 thru 6782 being current msgs.

 JH> I noticed that. Looks like some dumb ass did a rescan on the
 JH> backbone! 

 JH> Ed

Yeah,  I'll say...

The other day my screen wouldn't unblank when I got home from work,  no
response in any other way either,  so I had to reset.  Logs showed that
things came to an abrupt stop in the middle of transferring a whole *mess*
of incoming files.  And when I tossed the stuff that had come in (which the
system didn't do) I got well over 4000 messages,  far in excess of the
usual traffic.  And I ended up throwing most of it out,  once I realized
what had happened.

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