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From: Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Server glitch vs other possibilities (Was : Compute Unique Numbers in a Set)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:47:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:20:19 +0100
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> It is quite clear that there has been a glitch on the 
> news.eternal-september.org server.  Somehow, a message body from 
> rec.arts.books has been crosslinked, was delivered as though it matched 
> the normal-looking pre-downloaded header in the thread.  (I'm guessing 
> Muttley actually made a post in the original thread, but I am unable to 
> see the real message body.)  The glitch appears to be limited to 
> news.eternal-september.org - other users of that server have said they 
> saw it, while it did not appear on other servers.  People have reported 
> the existence of the rambling essay post in rec.arts.books, made by Ilya 
> Shambat - it was a real post, but on news.eternal-september.org the 
> message body was accidentally attached to the wrong header summaries for 
> comp.lang.c++.
> 
> Usenet server glitches are rare - client glitches are more likely.  The 
> same glitch occurring for at least three different people is, however, 
> highly unlikely.

It could be a Thunderbird issue. Note the following :

    From: Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
    Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,comp.lang.c++
    Subject: Re: Compute Unique Numbers in a Set
    Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:42:54 +0100
    Message-ID: <tqbkrr$1ja1c$1@dont-email.me>
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
     Thunderbird/102.6.1

    From: red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid>
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
    Subject: Re: Compute Unique Numbers in a Set
    Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:42:51 -0800
    Message-ID: <tqbrub$1kco3$1@redfloyd.dont-email.me>
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
     Thunderbird/102.6.1

    From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
    Subject: Re: Server glitch vs other possibilities (Was : Compute Unique
     Numbers in a Set)
    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:30:21 +0100
    Message-ID: <tqp4jd$7ik0$1@dont-email.me>
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101
     Thunderbird/102.4.2

All 3 of you use Thunderbird. Not precisely the same version but close. I assume
you have tried to reproduce the steps which originally led you to see the defective
post and you can no longer reproduce them.

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