trying to narrow down nnrpd problem ... in newgroups?

[The Hermit Hacker]

I get this:

news    62493 11.1  1.3 27572 10264  ??  RN   10:57PM   0:08.37 nnrpd: localhost.hub.org newgroups (nnrpd)

from issuing:

200 hub.org InterNetNews server INN 2.3experimental 27-Aug-1999 ready
mode reader
200 hub.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3experimental 27-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok).
newgroups
501 yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
newgroups 991001
501 yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
newgroups 991001 000000
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
%

And, after exiting, it still is pounding away:

news     62493  7.5  2.3 32136 18004  ??  RN   10:57PM   0:18.02 nnrpd: localhost.hub.org newgroups (nnrpd)

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org