Summary: NewsGrazer crashes -- too many groups?

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From: Christopher McRae
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:59

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  This is a summary of the responses I received as a result of the
following post.  Thanks to all who replied. :-)

In article <1992Apr15.221558.19453@cognet.ucla.edu> chris@polaris.cognet.ucla.edu (Christopher McRae) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  Our newsgroup count recently passwd the 1500 mark and we
>ended up having to recompile rn.  Now, we've noticed that
>NewsGrazer isn't working anymore either.  It starts up and
>chews on the active file for a little while and then quits
>with a "Bus Error".
>  Is there anyone out there with any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> [ sig deleted ]

  It turns out the problem is not due to the number of newsgroups
we have.  Rather, it is due to number of dots in a newsgroup name.
Someone recently created the following two bogus newsgroups:

alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol
alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.and.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix

NewsGrazer crashes with a "Bus Error" message when it sees groups,
such as these, with 10 (or more) dots in the name.  The solution
is to remove these bogus groups (ask your news admin).

  Pascal Chesnais (lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu) says that NeXT
has a version of NewsGrazer which fixes this, but is not releasing
it yet.  

Thanks again -- Chris

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Chris McRae					chris@cognet.ucla.edu
Cognet System Administrator                    	(310) 206-3960     
Cognitive Science Research Program
University of California at Los Angeles

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