At 09:15 PM 12/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
>"NetWin Support Auckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >IF it still fails send us the resulting dnews.log
>
>Roydon,
>
>Forgive me if I'm being clueless, but here's a problem. Rather than sending
>you the log of 1685 (mostly) unwanted msnews.microsoft.com groups, I thought
>I'd describe it here.
>
>Basically, I did what you suggested. I created a txt file in work and modified
>dnews.conf thus:
>
>suck_file1 microsoft_groups_list.txt
>nntp_feeder msnews.microsoft.com
>
>newsfeeds.conf was modified to reflect that change, thus:
>
>site $nntp_feeder
> maxcross 4
> builtin
> onlyposts
> posting
>
>Worked fine, with one exception. Some of the groups were not showing up here.
>I wanted to add *.public.win2000.*, so I modified suck_file1 to reflect that
>change. The resulting file is:
>
>...
>I did a 'getgroups 1' (DNews Admin indicated it wants a suck feed number). The
>result was 1685 new MS groups.
>
>So, I must have done something completely clueless, but I have no idea what.
No, you got caught by a bug we didn't know about, I'll fix this in the next
build
if you want we can send you a new binary if you give us an email address.
ChrisP.
