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From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Letting the Bozos ruin your day (was: Problem(?) with active file)
Message-ID: <1707@vicom.COM>
Date: 6 May 89 22:26:33 GMT
References: <937@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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In article <937@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
=My inews keeps telling me that I have problems with my active file,
=and that "the following newsgroups are not valid and should be removed";
=it then quotes the names of ALL the "rec" newsgroups.

The problem is that there are so many Bozo administrators out there.  Someone
issued an erroneous checkgroups that escaped his site.  In general, pay
no attention to checkgroups.  Even the "official" ones are often messed up
(Hi Eliot! ;-}).  All site admins should disable auto newgroups and rmgroups,
ignore checkgroups, and let the actual traffic and their preferences decide	
what groups are active on their systems.  To leave yourself at the mercy of
an anarchic and inexperienced net is lunacy.
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com