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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with c-news expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.194717.8358@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 19:47:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.173801.17063@demott.com> <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp> mike@pensoft.uucp (Mike Heath) writes:
>>>expire: alt.aquaria' (unmoderated) not covered by control filegroup `
>>
>>Is this the exact form of the message?  It shouldn't be mangled like that...
>
>I installed C-news just in the last month and I had the same problem.
> ...
>/Usr/Lib/Newsbin/Expire/Expire: group `alt.activism' (unmoderated) not covered b
>y control file (no details given)

Well, no, not the same problem.  Note that your message makes sense, where
his was curiously mangled.

>The last line of my control file is `all x 10 -'...

Now this is a bit of a mystery; that line ought to be taking care of all
comers, so expire shouldn't be squawking about uncovered groups.  What
are the previous few lines like, and the one for alt?
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