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Subject: Re: Cnews gone crazy? I'm supposed to delete almost 1/3 of my active file?
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Date: 24 Oct 90 09:20:28 GMT
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gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes:

[...]

>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.

I got such checkgroups at least five times since I overtook the
administration of news at our site in June.

>Relax; ignore it; it doesn't hurt anything.

My newsgroups list gets garbled and I have to restore it every time.
It's a very good thing that c-news makes a back-up...

> 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.

Long Haired Nick

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