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From: larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: active file is silent on overflow
Message-ID: <486@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 08:18:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.486
Posted: Thu Oct 16 08:18:41 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Oct-86 22:13:11 EDT
References: <2748@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Junior College, FL
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Summary: Can we find out what has been rmgrouped?

In article <2748@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> I just got mail from a news adm who had planned on doing the rmgroups
> all at once.  He got burned because his active file overflowed.
> There was no warning message, so all his news fell on the floor silently.
> ...
> This is a good time to clean out your active file, while you're at it.
> Erik Fair sent around a hundred or so rmgroups for old dead names that
> he found in .newsrc files on ucbvax.  If you got mail from your system
> about them, you still have them in your active file.
> ... 
> 	Mark Horton

For those of us who live on the edge of known universe (FL), is there any
way to find out what groups have already been rm'd?  I'm not having problems
with disk space (or at least no more than normal), but the new groups + old
groups are eating up my inodes like crazy!

I would like to remove the old, no longer used groups, but have only received
about 6 rmgroup messages (net.religion, etc.).  If I can find out what else
is gone, it would really help!

Thanks,
-----Larry

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