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newgroup message with blank group

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From: Warren Burstein
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:25
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Last week someone sent out a newgroup message in which the group was
missing.  C news obligingly created an entry in the active file
 000000000 000000000 y
(I didn't count the number of zeros).  expire complains that there is
a group with a bad name, and I've been getting these messages by mail
for a few days.  Then I started to get messages that the disk was
full.  Is it possible that when expire finds a line like this that it
quits?  If so, I think that either creation of groups that expire
can't handle should be disallowed, or expire should just skip bad
groups and continue.
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From: warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein)
Subject: newgroup message with blank group
Message-ID: <2437@itexjct.jct.ac.il>
Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Organization: ITEX, Jerusalem, Israel
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:25:56 GMT
Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
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