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Hi Simon

In article <874308570_OASIS_@husbands.demon.co.uk>
  Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk (Simon Husbands) wrote:-

>>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, but I know the rest of them are
>there in the file. Anyone know what we can do to get around this? It's
>irritating not being able to browse and click to add a new news group. 

Didn't you get exactly the same problem when you used NEWSwatch to download
the active groups? This does now seem to point the finger at Oasis not being
to handle the sheer number of entries in the file. Kind of takes the
suspicion away from NEWSwatch (phew), as your getting exactly the same
problem without using it.

Gary


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