Synchronizing db/newsgroups

[William F. Maton]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

> Is there a tool similar to actsync that would keep db/newsgroups
> up-to-date?
>
> It's very easy to write (since it can examine db/active to decide what
> groups to have, rather than have complicated select and ignore rules of
> its own); if there isn't one I'll clean this thing I just wrote up and
> stick it in contrib.

Yeah, I have something like this, but it trudges through the news spool
instead of the active file, and used that to back-fill descriptions...very
simple to write.

wfms