garbage in CNFS overview ??

[Olaf Titz]

> There are a lot of articles that have bogus groups in the
> Newsgroups: headers. It could be that the following strings:
>
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 ^[$B
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 ^[$B;%KZ!"9bCN!"
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 "Re
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 28 09:24 (was
> drwxrwxr-x  132 news  news   2048 Apr 29 09:46 .
> dr-xr-xr-x    9 news  news    512 Apr 29 14:26 ..
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 26 09:35 17:48
> drwxrwxr-x   11 news  news    512 Apr 25 19:10 3dfx
> drwxrwxr-x    2 news  news    512 Apr 29 09:38 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re
>
> actually appeared in a Newsgroup: header. Does the overview code in
> 2.2.2 check if a group is actually in the active file ?

>From the look of those strings I think these actually appeared in a
Subject header and something confused them with a Newsgroups header.
That could (wild guess) be related to another frequent cause of
overview corruption: running overchan with WntO instead of WnteO (or
any other wrong flags for that matter).

Olaf