Re: checking news problem[SOLVED]

Robert Holtzman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808312107220.10062@localhost>
on Sun, 31 Aug 2008, John E. Davis wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:00:50 -0700 (MST), Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> said:
>> [holtzm@localhost]~$ slrn -a
>> slrn pre0.9.9-120/mm/ao
>
> I believe that the bug that is affecting you was corrected in
> pre0.9.9-129:
>
> 129. src/group.c: An error was being generated when bogus groups were
>     found causing slrn to exit upon startup.

I'll wait for the Ubuntu devs to include it in their repositories.

In the meantime I solved my original problem. As I said before, Cox's 
outsourced news feed added almost 10,000 groups the other day, all empty.
I unsubscribed all of them but when I ran the L command today with * as a 
pattern I found a *huge* boatload of groups that weren't marked unsubscribed.
I don't know if I missed them before or whether the news feed snuck them 
in later but after I unsubscribed them news checking was back to nornal.

Thanks

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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