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From: hartman@abacab.UUCP (Mark A. Hartman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Summary: try this change to report.awk
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <327@abacab.uucp>
Date: 2 Jun 89 12:40:40 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <137@swituc.uucp>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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.

Try looking in the "log" file in your news directory so see if the full
group names are there.  If so, just make the following two line change
to report.awk to clean up the format a bit:

< 	x = length($7) - 2;
< 	ng = substr($7, 2, x);
---
> 	x = length($7);
> 	ng = substr($7, 1, x);
-- 
Mark Hartman			{att,obdient}!abacab!hartman