At 10:34 PM 12/29/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Something very strange happened this day. I made a new group on my server
>yesterday, which seemed to be running ok. But suddenly today all the
>messages in this group turned up with a name of another poster. For example,
>if a user "John" posted a message with subject "Hello" and text " �t's me
>again" yesterday, today the message showed up as it was from a user "jane"
>with subject "Rain" but with the same text body " �t's me again". What
>caused this?
That could occur if you reused gid values or corrupted your active.dat
manually somehow, to fix it do this:
tellnews rebuild_piles
and delete or xover data
del (xover_dir)/*.xov
That should fix it.
Chrisp.
