Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with checkgroups with cnews
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.155243.6218@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep20.124459.7639@trevan.uucp>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 15:52:43 GMT

In article <1990Sep20.124459.7639@trevan.uucp> trevor@trevan.uucp writes:
>When I get a checkgroups message I get two messages mailed to news which
>seem to disagree. Chechgroups also complains about control and junk which
>are in the localgroups file and so should not be reported.
>Please could some explain what is happening...

Sigh, I seem to end up saying this about once a week:  C News checkgroups
has bugs.  This is partly because there is no specification for how
checkgroups is supposed to work, so implementing it was guesswork.  We
do hope to fix this eventually.
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