heustess@deimos.unm.edu (Lori Heustess) (01/14/90)
One of my favorite newsgroups has recently become
a "bogus" newsgroup. Why? What happend? Does this
mean I can no longer read this group?
Comments, suggestions welcome...
Thanks in advance,
Loritale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (01/14/90)
In article <1292@ariel.unm.edu> heustess@deimos.unm.edu (Lori Heustess) writes: > One of my favorite newsgroups has recently become a "bogus" > newsgroup. Why? What happend? Does this mean I can no longer read > this group? It means it was removed from the list of active newsgroups by your news administrator, or an automatic process acting in his behalf. There are any number of reasons why this could have happened, including a message from another news administrator saying remove it, an edict from somewhere above him in the administration, a crunch on diskspace, a general purging, a whim, or whatever. > Comments, suggestions welcome... Politely ask your news admin why it was removed and whether it can be brought back to your site. If you don't know offhand who that is, mail to news@ariel.unm.edu will probably seen by the right person (for Lori). -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (01/14/90)
In article <1292@ariel.unm.edu> heustess@deimos.unm.edu.UUCP (Lori Heustess) writes: >One of my favorite newsgroups has recently become >a "bogus" newsgroup. Why? What happend? Does this >mean I can no longer read this group? rn produces this message when a newsgroup listed in your .newsrc has disappeared from the netnews active file (there are other possibilities if you're using rrn). You can no longer read the group because it "no longer exists" _at your site_. In any case you want to take the matter up with your local news administrator --there's nothing we can do about it. BTW, you need to bug your news administrator anyway--there's an extraneous .UUCP on your Reply-To: address, making it difficult to reply directly to your postings. -=EPS=-
king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) (01/15/90)
In article <1292@ariel.unm.edu> heustess@deimos.unm.edu.UUCP (Lori Heustess) writes: > >One of my favorite newsgroups has recently become >a "bogus" newsgroup. Why? What happend? Does this >mean I can no longer read this group? There's another possibility, in addition to what others have said. This happens to me all the time: I'm using a Sun, and I leave 'rn' running all day. Sometimes when new news is received from outside, 'rn' chokes and marks ALL my newsgroups as bogus. The only solution I've found is to copy my .newsrc to a temporary file, quit 'rn', and copy the temp file back to .newsrc. It's rather annoying, but it beats using 'nn'! :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------+--------------------------- In times like these, it helps to recall that there | Steve King (708) 991-8056 have always been times like these. | ...uunet!motcid!king (Paul Harvey) | ...ddsw1!palnet!stevek