Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!orstcs!statware!usenet
From: usenet@statware.UUCP (Usenet News)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <2884@statware.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 16:23:49 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <137@swituc.UUCP>
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In article <137@swituc.UUCP> pmb@swituc.UUCP (Pat Berry) writes:
>In article <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>, news@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) 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
>We are getting the same thing to the tune of 10 to 15 per day.  It appears
>to be a handshaking problem, clipping off the first few chars of the group
>names.

  We also get the same thing.  I agree with Berry, as an earlier message
indicates "short articles received".
  Look for these bad articles in spool/junk.  I'm using the mvjunk script
posted by David Wright (uunet.uu.net!ukc!std.stc.co.uk!dww), with some later
fixes, to move these articles to the correct newsgroup based on the
NEWSGROUP line.


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