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 In article <823820182_OASIS_@aveleymc.demon.co.uk>
  TheBoys@aveleymc.demon.co.uk (Mark Williams) said:-

>I fought this one for ages; If you've either hand-edited your nntp.dat 
>or it's gotten corrupted, all groups below the error are lost. Check 
>for a blank at the start of all newsgroup lines especially.
>
>news.demon.co.uk 960207 075612
>
>        demon.announce
>        demon.ip.support.atari
>comp.sources.atari.st
>        comp.sources.misc
>
>this would get demon.announce, & demon.ip.support.atari, but would get 
>nothing from the other two groups...
>
>Phils 'add to NNTP' fix is very painful - been there, tried it, run 
>out of line-length & had multi-line NNTP's....  Yukk!

This could be very useful however ...

news.demon.co.uk 960207 075612
        demon.announce
        demon.ip.support.atari
        <blah>
pubnews.demon.co.uk yymmdd hhmmss
        comp.binaries
        binaries.blah

During the week you could download your normal stuff then at the 
weekends when its cheap you could use pubnews to download the whole of 
the last week's binaries. It might even update the file correctly 
afterwould as I suspect this is how it is supposed to be used.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk