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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.groups,news.software.b,news.misc,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Cnews gone crazy? I'm supposed to delete almost 1/3 of my active file?
Message-ID: <776@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 16:40:37 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.235959.300@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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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.

Relax. Someone probably posted a checkgroups with the wrong distribution
that was received on your system. It happens about twice a year, which is
suprisingly low considering the number of sites.

The giveaway is when there are hierarchies you don't carry, or local.*
groups that don't match yours, and it's calling for the removal of groups 
that you know are valid.

Relax; ignore it; it doesn't hurt anything. You might want to look at the
path of the control message and send a note back to the originator (who's
probably catching a lot of flack) reminding them to check the Distribution:
header, next time...

-- 
    Gary Heston     { uunet!sci34hub!gary  }    System Mismanager
   SCI Technology, Inc.  OEM Products Department  (i.e., computers)
"The esteemed gentlebeing says I called him a liar. It's true, and I
regret that." Retief, in "Retiefs' Ransom" by Keith Laumer.