Re: Warning for AmigaNOS users

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From: Amran Vance
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:23

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In article <Steve.0094@donald.demon.co.uk> Steve@donald.demon.co.uk (Steve Gilbert) writes:

> Had a strange problem where AmigaNOS crashed the machine after receiving a
> mail message. Took me about 2 days to work out what was wrong, but it turns
> out to have been caused by me having too many
> 
> nntp addserver 158.152.1.65 2400 demon.*

[...etc]

> 
> lines in my nos-startup file. I deleted a few, and everything returned to
> normal.

What is the advantage of using "nntp addserver" entries rather than simply
tagging the newsgroup you want to recieve on to the end of the "nntp
groups" entry?

Thanks for the warning Steve!

    ---Amran

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Subject: Re: Warning for AmigaNOS users
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