Re: Help! No news......

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From: Eddie McGlone
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 00:00

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 In article <823479484_OASIS_@husbands.demon.co.uk>
  Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk (Simon Husbands) said:-

>Help!!!!!
>
>I've recently added a few more news groups to my list on Oasis, but each time
>I've logged in nothing has come through for these groups! I know they are
>normally busy as I've had them on my list before for a while. How can I check
>that my request ( via Oasis/Nos ) has been done correctly. It's almost as if the
>new groups have been ignored for some reason. I use news.demon.co.uk. Everything
>else seems to come through fine, as normal.

This has happened to me twice now.

What you have to do is add the new groups onto the end of the "nntp 
newsgroups" line of your starup.nos. For some reason Oasis does not 
seem to handle this properly.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Ed.
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