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epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein) writes:

>In <1993Jan9.022528.8181@news.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:

->pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer) writes:
->
->>There is a bug in nn causing group names to be lost in the the .newsrc file.
->>There is a news group comp.lang.c!!. 
->>When a unsubscribe is done on this newsgroup the .newsrc file loses the
->>newsgroups beneath the comp.lang.c!! line.
->>I solved this by disabling the group in the GROUP file.
->
->There certainly shouldn't be a newsgroup called comp.lang.c!!, as a ! is
->the unsubscribe mark in every major newsreader.  There is a comp.lang.c++,
->which shouldn't cause any problems.  If you do have a comp.lang.c!!, it's
->bogus and should be nuked.

>While this particular case may involve a bogus newsgroup, there really
>is a bug here (and a particularly nasty one, if you ask me :-).  I
>reported this here some time back (and got no response :-).  In my
>case, the bug appeared when the same group appeared in my .newsrc
>twice, first unsubscribed (i.e. with a `!'), and then subscribed (i.e.
>with a `:').  When I ran nn, everything in my .newsrc after the
>unsubscribed line for that group was deleted.  While it is
>questionable whether the same group should appear twice in the
>.newsrc, certainly there should not be massive deletions from the
>.newsrc if it does happen.

You're right, it shouldn't.  However, I'm unable to duplicate this problem
(my nn accepts the first occurance, ignoring the second) so finding it would
be a problem.

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