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From: Mark Hobley on 21 Mar 2010 04:08
I am using the tin newsreader. By pressing y a couple of times I can get a
list of all newsgroups available on the feed. The unsubscribed groups are
mostly marked with a letter u at the beginning. However, I notice that some
groups are not marked with a letter u, but are not in the list of subscribed
groups (for example, the linux.dev.* groups are not marked with a u). I can
subscribe to the groups marked with a letter u, by pressing s for subscribe.
However, by pressing s on those groups not marked with a letter u, I am not
able to subscribe to these.

Has anyone else seen this on their newsfeed?
Why are those groups not marked with a letter u?

Mark.

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From: Mark Hobley on 21 Mar 2010 11:08
In alt.comp.software.newsreaders Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com> wrote:

> Your Message-ID indicates that you are using Leafnode. Are the groups in
> question listed in /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo?

Yes. They are listed in that file:

linux.dev.8086 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.admin 1 2 1134609112 -x-
linux.dev.apps 1 2 1134609112 -x-
linux.dev.c-programming 1 2 1134609112 -x-
linux.dev.config 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.debian 1 2 1134609112 -x-
linux.dev.kernel 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.kernel.announce 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.kernel.patch 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.laptop 1 2 1134609112 -x-
linux.dev.linuxbsd 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.linuxnews 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.msdos 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.newbie 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.normal 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.pkg 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.standards 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.term 1 2 1253203682 -x-
linux.dev.word 1 2 1253203682 -x-

The groups also exist on the upstream feed.

Regards,

Mark.

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From: Mark Hobley on 21 Mar 2010 17:08
In comp.os.linux.misc Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com> wrote:

> Interesting. Have you edited out the y/n/m that indicates posting or
> moderation for each group, or is that information not present in
> groupinfo?

I have not edited this file, so presumably that information is not present in
groupinfo.

> <http://groupsearch.alt-config.net/cgi-bin/prop.pl?action=search&group=linux.dev.%2A&sorting=count>

Wow! What a fantastic search engine! I had no idea such a tool existed :)
I have bookmarked that :-)

> Have you tried using telnet to log in to your upstream server to see what
> is really there?

There is a web interface that allows me to check that the groups are available
on the upstream server.

I will try and test this through telnet though.

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