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Mark Rogers (mcr@holly.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> In article <828391088.4778@thokk.demon.co.uk>
>    malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) writes:
> > Mark Rogers (mcr@holly.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > 
> > > I noticed today that DIS (or is it ADDGROUP?) always adds the newsbase 
> > > file 00000000 and its accociated index file. Regardless of whether ACTIVE 
> > > actually defines this group (I have junk assigned to the filename "junk" 
> > > instead).
> > 
> > If you have altered the code to call '00000000' junk, then you should
> > also alter the code that checks for the presence of '00000000' to
> > check for junk instead :)

> The "code" to call '00000000' junk is ~\spool\news\ACTIVE, and I have 
> indeed changed this. My point is that Addgroup is not looking at ALIAS, 
> but making assumptions which it perhaps should not. Addgroup certainly 
> has access to ALIAS in order to do its job, after all.

What is ALIAS ? It is not to my recollection part of Snews ?

The newsgroup name of '0000000' for junk is built into Snews and the
support utilities. There is no support for any form of newsgroup file
name other than the 8 digit numeric format.

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