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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: more interim results from worldwide net readership poll
Message-ID: <270@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Mar-86 23:55:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 30 23:55:28 1986
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References: <5192@glacier.ARPA> <1994@hao.UUCP> <5249@glacier.ARPA> <5784@glacier.ARPA>
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Summary: Netnews installation

In article <5784@glacier.ARPA>, reid@glacier.UUCP writes:
> In article <1425@garfield.columbia.edu> (David Eppstein) writes:
> I thought this was OK, but a problem arose. Some sites do not get all
> groups, and they incorrectly have the unsubscribed groups still present in
> their active files. While technically this is an installation error for
> netnews (you shouldn't have a group in your active file unless you actually
> exchange that group with your news partner), we all know how fruitless it is
> to get people to fix bugs in their news installations. If some site does not
> get net.abortion, and never did, then it will look as though everybody reads
> it.

Sorry Brian, but as a site that does not get all groups, I can tell you
that there is a problem with your suggestion.  If I remove net.abortion
from my active file, every time an article comes into my machine with
net.abortion in the newsgroups line (because it was crossposted with a
group my site does receive) inews will put an error message in the errlog
file.  And since my .profile checks the errlog file when I login, this
would be very annoying.  Other than confusing your arbitron script, can you
think of any reason *not* to have net.abortion in my active file?

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Ben Broder
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