Did he look at the actual dates on the messages in the archives? If the
Date: fields match "today", then concretely that's why they're in the output.
As far as the "double post" goes, it sounds like someone edited the file
and may have nicked (or removed) the line of 73 "=" signs that is the
message separator.
Nathan
At 03:25 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, UB Listserv Administrator wrote:
>Gang,
>
>I'm just going to forward a question by a list owner rather than rewrite
>it in my own words. It behaves exactly as he stated, and I don't know where to
>begin looking for a problem. I'm lost on this one. We are running 1.8e, 27 May
>2002 build date.
>
>Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Also the email below is from 2/24,
>about a month old.
>
>-Jim
>
>--
>Jim Serwinowski [log in to unmask]
>UB Listserv Administrator http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>Jim;
> This is something I have been meaning to ask for a long time, but I've
>a really good example here so am finally asking. I used "today" in this
>search, but 4/2/24 produces the same result.
> ------------------------------
> > s * in autocat from today
>-> 9 matches.
>
>Item # Date Time Recs Subject
>------ ---- ---- ---- -------
>003027 04/02/24 01:47 18 Humor
>011190 04/02/24 01:47 15 Re: Diacritics
>090345 04/02/24 01:48 107 Re: Conference name
>101654 04/02/24 00:08 19 Gaylord Se-lin labeller
>101655 04/02/24 00:09 36 Display of enhanced 505's
>101656 04/02/24 00:15 76 Re: Expression level entries
>101657 04/02/24 07:34 22 Re: Copying from PAL to VHS
>101658 04/02/24 07:43 20 Re: 043 for Pacific Islands
>101659 04/02/24 08:29 26 Re: Barcodes on outside of items
>
>To order a copy of these postings, send the following command:
>
> GETPOST AUTOCAT 3027 11190 90345 101654-101659
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>How did 3027 (from 1992), 11190 (from 1993) and 90345 (from 2002)
>get into a search for date 4/2/24 ? *AND* 90345 is not a single item
>it is two; the item indexed, from John J. Marr, plus an item from
>Colleen Turnage (sp?). Do a GETPOST AUTOCAT for 90345 and you will get
>the double item, neither of which are 4/2/24 items.
>
>Have you an idea why this happens? Not a major problem, just something
>I've been puzzling about for a long while without finding any explanatory
>pattern (the first two have 24:xx:xx times, but the third has a 12:xx:xx
>time; the fourth, linked to the third differs in how the date is given:
>Sat, July 13/Sat, 13 July).
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