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From: John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: Question re alt.comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:03:55 -0400
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On 2019-08-15 3:33 p.m., Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 15/08/2019 21.09, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>>
>> To fix the immediate problem, it's probably sufficient to create empty
>> files in /var/spool/news/interesting_groups for each of the missing
>> groups.
> 
> They exist.

What are their timestamps?  Use the 'stat' command to check that their
change times are in the last week, otherwise leafnode will think the
groups are no longer active.