Re: NewsGrazer crashes, GNUS doesn't

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From: Scott Wisdom
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:53

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In article <CNH5730.92Apr12171955@calvin.tamu.edu> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles N. Herrick) writes:
>
>Several folks at my univ are experiencing a crash of NG. I'm reading
>and posting in GNUS to ask this: any ideas? NG comes up and says
>it's locating news groups and then goes down.
>
>Any idea of where to look? Our nntp news-server is tamsun.tamu.edu.
This is due to the fact that someone created a bogus newsgroup with the
'&' character in the name. This causes NewsGrazer to crash, and now that this
is known, we should see a new '&' group every time someone posts in RTF and
someone else wants to retalitate against NewsGrazer. We will never be
rid of these groups.

This may be the end of NewsGrazer - NeXT has said nothing regarding
intentions on NewsGrazer updates (nothing that I've come across). So in
other words, NewsGrazer is now only a side note in computer history unless
NeXT decides to release an update. I wonder if the older versions will run?

-Scott Wisdom
wisdom@geom.umn.edu

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