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From: kdoshi@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Problem with some newsgroups - Why?
Message-ID: <256@forsight.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 11 Apr 89 23:18:41 GMT
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About every month or so, I get the following message from news with Subject
line as follows:

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Subject: Problems with your active file

# The following newsgroups are non-standard.
#	comp.ai.edu
#	comp.ai.vision
#	comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
#	comp.dcom.lans.v2lni
#	comp.editors
#	comp.edu.composition
#	comp.lang.asm370
#	comp.lang.clu
#	comp.lang.forth.mac
#	comp.lang.icon
#	comp.lang.idl
#	comp.lang.lisp.franz
#	comp.lang.lisp.x
#	comp.lang.rexx
#	comp.lang.scheme.c
#	comp.lang.visual
#	comp.lsi.cad
#	comp.mail.multi-media
#	comp.music
#	comp.os.aos
#	comp.os.cpm.amethyst
#	comp.os.rsts
#	comp.os.v
#	comp.periphs.printers
#	comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
#	comp.protocols.iso.x400
#	comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
#	comp.protocols.pcnet
#	comp.protocols.pup
#	comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
#	comp.sys.cdc
#	comp.sys.handhelds
#	comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
#	comp.sys.northstar
#	comp.sys.super
#	comp.sys.ti.explorer
#	comp.sys.zenith
#	comp.terminals.bitgraph
#	comp.terminals.tty5620
#	comp.theory
#	comp.theory.cell-automata
#	comp.theory.dynamic-sys
#	comp.theory.self-org-sys
#	comp.unix.cray
#	news.software.nntp
#	rec.games.vectrex
#	rec.mag.fsfnet
#	sci.bio.technology
#	sci.math.num-analysis
#	sci.philosophy.meta
#	soc.culture.esperanto

# You can remove them by executing the commands:
	/news/lib/rmgroup comp.ai.edu comp.ai.vision ............ [etc.]

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Can anyone tell me why it does this? This are active newsgroups.
What makes it think these are non-standard? How can I stop
it from doing this? I believe all of the above are alternate newsgroups
on the "inet/ddn" distribution. 

We are running B News 2.11 patchlevel #14 and NNTP Version 1.5 on
SunOS 4.0.1.

Thanks for any info.

-Kunjal Doshi
 kdoshi@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov