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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Summary: Fix for bad newsgroup names in report.awk
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <792@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 16:43:53 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <199@icdi10.UUCP>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
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In article <199@icdi10.UUCP> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
> In article <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
> >In article <185@icdi10.uucp> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
> >~Bad Newsgroups Received
> >~a.politic 18               This is the stuff I'm talking about.
> >~a.single 1
> >~alk.politics.gun 5
> >~lt.bb 1
> >~lt.conspirac 1
...
> I don't know enough about awk to find the problem but I think it is created in 
> Eric Fair's awk script originally written in May, 1984 to give some news stats.
> 
> I don't want to post the whole script but here is the part that prints:

I've mailed this to enough people that I might as well post it.  It's not
the part that prints that truncates the first and last character.  Look for
the lines (approx. line 200):

$5 == "Unknown"         {
	x = length($7) - 2;
	ng = substr($7, 2, x);
	badng[ng]++;
	badgrp++;
	next;
}

Replace them with:

$5 == "Unknown"         {
	badng[$7]++;
	badgrp++;
	next;
}

This will fix the problen.

--marc
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