Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8466 news.software.readers:88 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!francis From: francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.readers Subject: Two queries regarding C-News (one of which also hits rn) Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 17:41:29 GMT Sender: francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 25 Well, we've finally switched over to our new machine running C-News (with Dave Alden's nntplink stuff, and Rich $alz's newsgate). Most things are going smoothly, but I do have a couple of questions: 1) Evidently BNews inews (or at least our copy of it) checked for multiple occurrences of the same group in the Newsgroups: line, and removed them, so articles with lines like "Newsgroups: test,test" would only get posted to test once. Now, articles with the Newsgroups header described above get posted twice. Is this the way things are supposed to be,or not? (We've got a piece of software we wrote that assumes that the duplicates will be weeded out of Newsgroups, which I'm willing to work on to resolve the problem on our end; I was just curious as to whether or not the behaviour we're seeing is considered correct) 2) This one is much more serious. rn users have, on two or three separate occasions now, been told that all of their newsgroups were bogus, and been unsubscribed from everything. I suspect that this has occurred at the same time as I've been running addgroup (and maybe delgroup). I've changed newgroup so new groups are not automatically created, and run addgroup myself. My suspicion is that when addgroup (again, or delgroup) changes the active and active.times files, rn is getting seriously confused. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu