dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave St.Pierre) (07/23/86)
This problem has been around ever since rn has but it may be much more
important with this wholesale renaming of newsgroups coming up ...
rn and inews seem to be in conflict as to what should be in a
well-formed newgroup. inews updates the active file but doesn't
run the mkdir until the first article arrives. rn announces
"No mod.mac.binaries!"
and for all intents and purposes ignores that newsgroup until you
later "manually" add it to your .newsrc (like with the 'g' command).
This has been a tolerable situation in the past but with 150 or so
newgroups about to flood the net, and not all of them having an article
tagged with it, we're going to have a few unhappy rn readers.
Rick feels that it's rn's problem. Larry may or may not disagree.
The fix was rather trivial to inews (call mknewsg in c_newgroup)
and may be equally easy in rn. Can one of the two come up with an
"official" fix?
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