On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Tim Starling wrote:

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Taking the SQL query used in Special:Randompage from CVS and modifying it very slightly...

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It doesn't always return the same articles, but they're always very low-numbered. I don't know about you, but I would call that a MySQL bug.

Indeed I did write that, but that message hasn't made it through to my mailing-list email account. I sent that message twice (using different methods), and I see both copies reached the archive, and one of them has reached the GMANE, but neither seem to have been broadcast by email.

Although this I'm mainly intended this as a warning to posters to be careful, and an apology for confusing people, I'll offer some completely uninformed and naive ideas of what is going wrong. One of the messages was not sent by GMANE at all, it was sent via my ISP's SMTP server. Is it possible mailman discarded both the GMANE post and the SMTP post because the sender address (-----@hotmail.com) did not match the sending server?

-- Tim Starling.

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