Re: These names are illegal?

Am 29.06.2013 18:00, schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
> When fetching news I get 152 lines like the following:
>     Warning: skipping group ".", invalid name (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group "...", invalid name (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group ".alt.california", invalid name (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group ".alt.consciousness.4th-way", invalid name
> (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group ".alt.fan.karl-malden.nose", invalid name
> (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group ".alt.politics.liberalism", invalid name
> (NULL component).
>     Warning: skipping group ".alt.usenet.kooks", invalid name (NULL component).
> 
> I already added 'nodesc = 1' in my config. Before it was even worse.
> 
> When looking to the names that give an error I see that they start or
> end with a dot, or that there are two dots after eachother in the
> name. This is not allowed?
> 

No, see Whiskers's post.

Please retry fetchnews with -f added to your regular options, and if the
problems persist, contact the operator of the offending server to have
them correct the server's active file and fixing their newsgroup
management setup.