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Article #52Re: newgroup message with blank group
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:26
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:26
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In article <2437@itexjct.jct.ac.il> warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein) writes:
>... Is it possible that when expire finds a line like this that it
>quits?
Expire's business is to destroy files. The general policy followed in
its code is that erring on the side of caution is preferable, so most
kinds of errors are considered fatal and the expiry is not done.
>If so, I think that either creation of groups that expire
>can't handle should be disallowed...
The most modern release of C News (the Performance Release) rejects
attempts to create groups with empty names.
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Newsgroups: news.admin.technical Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!ames!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!scott From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: newgroup message with blank group Message-ID: <Bxw2BK.8ns@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <2437@itexjct.jct.ac.il> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:26:41 GMT Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Lines: 17