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tombre@crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes:

>Once again, I repeat my question: Am I the only one having problems
>with Eliot Lear's checkgroups messages ??

>Regularly, when they come, I receive as news admin a mail telling me
>how corrupt my active file is (basically, no comp.* etc. group is
>valid) and advising me to rmgroup all these groups.  . . .

>And yes, honest, update of our Bnews software is on my TODO list.

We (OK, I) recently subjected the Michigan distribution to the same
sort of checkgrouping.  The results were fascinating.  Some sites,
including 2.11.14 and earlier, got boatloads of messages saying they
had spurious groups -- all groups besides mi.*.  Others got empty
messages with the subject "invalid groups" or something similar.
Up-to-date Bnews and Cnews sites got proper messages.  So the problem
is definately the news software levels.

I plan to send the mi checkgroups message quarterly, and am looking
for a way to include 'extra' text in it so I can let those behind-
the-times sysadms know what's going on.
-- 
Steve Simmons	       scs@iti.org         Industrial Technology Institute
                  "People tend to hit me." --  Mike Wayne