"Andy Blackshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> iirc it was to do with newsgroups with very long names.
I just saved the grouplist as a text file, and there are a couple with names
that are about 100 characters long, I expect that is the problem.
> There seems to
> be a limit on what md2 will cope with. I'm not sure wether this was
> the name itself or combined with the description, but the most
> complete list I have (~34000) has no descriptions - all replaced by ?.
The list I have is just the group names, I don't know if there are
descriptions on the server or not.
> I think the solution may be to download the list separately ify you
> can make it available as it is just a simple text file, and edit out
> or truncate description from the long lines with e.g. an arexx script.
I can upload the list I have to my webspace if you like, its a 0.98MB text
file.
Regards,
Andy
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