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In article <1992Apr12.002052.24405@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> rxd20@po.CWRU.Edu  
(Ramesh Dodamani) writes:
> 
> When I run NewsGrazer, it displays the opening screen saying
> 'Locating active newsgroups' and then dies. When I run it from a 
> terminal I get a message saying 'Bus error'.

This probably won't get to you via News, so I'll mail a response also,
but for the edification of the rest of you folks using NewsGrazer:

With the help of a super SysAdmin Jim Murray at our corporate  
headquarters, I've been able to identify the problem 
that blows up NewsGrazer.

Some idiot created a group with an "&" in its name.

alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.&.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix

If you have your news administrator remove this group,
the problem will go away. 

I don't know how to kill it sufficiently to keep it from coming back,  
however.  And as soon as people find out that an "&" in a newsgroup name  
kills NewsGrazer, I'll bet that other groups will be malicously created.    
The same thing happened a while back with ":" in names that caused "rn" to  
die.

Maybe NeXT or somebody will be gracious enough to patch
NewsGrazer.

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