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From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Updating Active file
Keywords: Active newsgroups
Message-ID: <196@jgaltstl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 03:09:44 GMT
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Organization: The Lafayette Group, St. Louis, MO.
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As a new administrator, I have a question. Believe me, I have tried
to find the answer in my manuals, and done a fair amount of 
experimentation on my machine to come up with the answer, but am
now only frustrated. If someone can provide me with an answer, or
direct me to the proper reading material, it will be most appreciated.

I downloaded a copy of the 'newsgroups' file from my feed (uunet),
and have found any number of groups which were not in my active file.
Many of these I don't subscribe to. However, there are a number in,
for instance, comp, which are valid newsgroups, but my machine does
not recognize them as being valid. Therefore, they are discarded into
'junk'. What is the correct procedure for getting my 'active' file
to be in-step with my feed's newsgroups file. 

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