newgroup message with blank group

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2 total messages Started by Warren Burstein Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:25

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Author: 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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Re: newgroup message with blank group

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Author: Henry Spencer
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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