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From: stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: valid newsgroups ??
Message-ID: <775@hsi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 11:48:35 EST
Article-I.D.: hsi.775
Posted: Mon Nov 23 11:48:35 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 07:22:46 EST
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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A week ago I got mail from the news system saying that there were
"Problems with your active file" and there were a list of about 50
newsgroups that it said were invalid and should be removed.
These were comp.ai.edu, comp.ai.vision, comp.editors, comp.lang.asm370, ...
I went ahead and executed the command it suggested to delete the
groups and all was fine.

Then 4 days later I get mail saying that all of these groups were
missing from the active file and should be added, so I went ahead
and added them.

Can anyone shed any light as to what's going on ??  Thanks.
(What prompts these mail messages to be sent - is a specific news
message received that causes the active file to be checked ??
If so, how often does this occur ??)

	Richard Stevens
	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
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