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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews gone crazy? I'm supposed to delete almost 1/3 of my active file?
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.152550.10545@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct16.235959.300@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 15:25:50 GMT

In article <1990Oct16.235959.300@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>After unbatching a particularly large number of news batches, cnews sent
>me a mail message with title: Problems with your active file, that
>instructed me to get rid of 195 news groups.  After going through the list,
>this made no sense.

This is the "checkgroups" code, which is known to be buggy, partly because
there has never been a clear specification for what it was supposed to do.
Ignore it.
-- 
"...the i860 is a wonderful source     | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
of thesis topics."    --Preston Briggs |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry