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From: wedgingt@udenva.cair.du.edu (Will Edgington)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <11742@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Date: 30 May 89 13:33:19 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: wedgingt@nike.cair.du.edu (Will Edgington)
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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'm getting the same problem here, but I can't seem to trace down the
]culprit.  I can't even find the messages that have this problem.  Anybody
]have any clues?

I missed the original article (way behind on news as usual), but I presume
you're both looking at the output of a variant of Eric Fair's newslog.awk.
Certainly, I had the same problem for a while when using one I got from
UC/Boulder.  The bug is there in the awk script, not the news software
itself.  You see, under 2.10.2 (?) and earlier versions of B news, the
error message about "bad newsgroup" prints the newsgroup within quotes
('ba.politics', for example) while B news 2.11 doesn't (ba.politics).
Newslog.awk, knowing 2.10.2's method, strips the first and last character
of that field off without checking them to be sure they're quotes.  The
fix is easy, of course:  take off any quotes, but nothing else.
-- 
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