Re: corrupted newsgroups file

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From: Paul Womar
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00

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Simon Husbands <Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>  In article <199709130023212729903@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
>   Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) said:-
> 
> >It's called "active" and is on ftp.demon.co.uk, in something like the
> >pub/news directory.  There are plenty of compressed versions to choose
> >
> I downloaded the active.zip file from the Demon ftp site and it does
> indeed list all the NG's, but if you rename it 'NG' and put it in your
> /SPOOL/NEWS folder, Oasis 1.35 ( for me anyway ) only seems to recognise
> the first 240 newsgroups.It
> scrolls down them and stops after 240 groups,

I'm sure I did that and it worked just fine, I believe it also has
comments such as "moderated" in it, perhaps these are causing the
problem?

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Date: 1997/09/16
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