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From: jeh@simpact.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Troubles adding batches with 5.9B
Message-ID: <792.2588fc41@simpact.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 21:14:25 GMT
References: <791.2588fa61@simpact.com>
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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In article <791.2588fa61@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes:
> ...
> A few hours later, another batch arrived and worked fine, except for one
> item that was posted to comp.unix.wizards and rejected (Type 1).  It turns
> out that although there's an entry in news.groups for comp.unix.wizards,
> the directory doesn't exist.  Apparently, in this case, NEWS trusts news.groups
> and doesn't try to create the directory if it isn't there.  

Third suggestion:  In this case, NEWS should just go ahead and create the
directory.