Thanks to everyone who replied to my post about my subscriber(Marc Y.) who
received a flood of archived messages. As a follow-up, here is the apparent
explanation.I have deleted the name of the person who wrote Marc.
Cheers, Pat
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Pat -
   you might be interested in the following msg I just received.  It
explains where the old messages came from.
 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:21:26 -0500 (EST)
From:<[log in to unmask]>
To: marc yergin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Flood of Archived Messages
 
A few days ago you asked about a flood of old messages that suddenly
appeared in your mailbox.  You only got 180;  I got 633!
 
Here's what happened .... The mail system at Telerama was configured to
use a backup mail server at Duquesne U. when the main server at Telerama
was overloaded.  Unfortunately, messages that went to the backup server
starting in mid-November weren't being sent to Telerama.  Someone either
at Telerama or Duquesne did something that caused the backup server to
start working through it's queue of old messages.
 
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Pittsburgh, PA