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From: abbajay@oracle.UUCP (Dave Abbajay)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Info on control messages
Message-ID: <334@oracle.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 12:35:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 12:35:50 1987
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Keywords: invalid newsgroups

I have a very simple question. (Actually, a small list of questions).
I hope this is the appropriate group to air it. If not, please forgive
my ignorance.

Periodically I get a control message that tells me all of my
invalid groups (the infamous "Problems with your active file...").
It then gives me a whole list of newsgroups that it thinks are
not valid. Some of them are not. The "mod" groups, for example,
are being or have been phased out (is this a correct statement?).
However, there are lots of others that I KNOW are valid. Ones like
comp.databases and comp.bugs.*. In fact, it looks like it is
invalidating ALL of the comp.* newsgroups. My question, long
winded as it is, is where does this message come from, should I
worry about it, and what do I need to do so that it "likes" my
active file?? I hesitate to follow the instructions in it since
I've just recently gotten news up and running again after having
been off the net for a while. I realize I'm a little behind the
times in the scheme of things and am playing catchup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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Dave Abbajay
Senior Technical Staff
ORACLE Corporation
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