From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Active file deletions
Article-I.D.: alice.676
Posted: Fri Jun 18 08:35:44 1982
Received: Sun Jun 20 04:08:00 1982

It was just pointed out to me that at least one legitimate group
(in this case, net.periphs) was deleted from our active file.  I
just reinstated it and found that it happened around THREE MONTHS
AGO; i.e. there are now three months worth of net.periphs waiting
to be read by us!  This can get very annoying.  I have no idea
just how many groups are in this situation here now (groups that
have directories and dot-files in SPOOLDIR but no entry in the
active file) and will cross check SPOOLDIR against the active file
to make sure.  My suggestion is that when articles come into a
group (or groups) with no entry in the active file, that an entry
for them be put back into the file.  This is not the same as
creating a new group, since the directory for the group already
exists, so inews does not at the present reenter the group in
the active file.

Adam