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From: tlimonce@drunivac.uucp
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: How do YOU accept a newsfeed?
Message-ID: <27756.2591b276@drunivac.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 89 04:49:58 GMT
References: <8912190551.AA27490@uunet.uu.net>
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In article <8912190551.AA27490@uunet.uu.net>,
munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes: 
> This has me beat - in newsutility do_newg calls sys_accept (or some similar
> name) which should reject newsgroup ba.forsale and NOT create it - what version
> are you running????

We're running version 5.9B (Or is it 5.9A?  I'm not sure.  I did at 
least one set of patches but it's the set that didn't include a 
change to the VERSION command.  I guess that's 5.9A, eh?)

Guess what?  The problem magically fixed itself.  How often does NEWS 
re-read the NEWS.SYS file?  Only when the first person enters news?
The problem went away after a few days, which is about how often 
there is a time when everyone exits news.

I don't think we rebooted, we're pretty 24hrs around here (library 
automation mostly, students reading news and mail is the other 
reason) so if we crashed & rebooted I would have heard about it.

-Tom
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