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From: ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: hand recovery of dropped news?
Message-ID: <618@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 03:47:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: bloom-be.618
Posted: Mon May 18 03:47:09 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 18-May-87 06:36:53 EDT
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Reply-To: ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz)
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Organization: Madhouse International Technologies
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Keywords: news junk lossage recovery
Summary: neophyte loses news.*, wants it back

Recently, while editing our sys file, I managed to drop the comma
between ne and news.  Lo, suddenly every piece of news posted to
news.all ended up in junk, and there was head-scratching aplenty until I
deciphered the cryptic "newsgroup in active but not in sys" error
message.  (Ok, so it's not that cryptic...)

The question now is, what is the "correct" way for me to rescue these
articles from junk?  Reposting them locally would work for us, but not
for those sites downstream from us.  Turning off nntp (we don't have
phones), moving the articles and editing the active file by hand is
feasible, but makes me think "there's got to be an easier way".  Is
there?

				AMBAR
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