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