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Ramesh Dodamani writes
+ 
+ Hi Netters
+ 
+ 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'.

I've seen that too, but only to a specific NNTP server. Works fine otherwise.

James

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'.
>
    Hmmmmm....
    NewsGrazer has always worked fine for me.  That is, until today.  Today
it is experiencing exactly the same symptoms you describe.
    Hmmmmm....

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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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   NewsGrazer has broke for me here too!!!   In earlier versions NG had
trouble reading .newsrc files saved by GNUS.   So I've looked at
mine for something funny.   All I can find is some new alt. groups
with very long names...

alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.and.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix! 
alt.fans.david.davidian.fascist.fascist.fascist! 
alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol! 

   I wonder if this has something to do with it.
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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'.

It turns out that NewsGrazer bites it when it encounters a newsgroup whose  
name has about 10 or more '.' in its name. There was an alt group created  
recently that had just this characteristic. The only solution at this point  
is to plead to your News administrator and have him/her delete the offending  
newsgroup from your site. 

Bryce Jasmer
bjasmer@next.com

gnus and trn do work under the new conditions..

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