problems with importing articles

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On May 9, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Georg Kremsner wrote:

> I want to import a spool from another news-server.

This procedure is a nice one, in general:

     http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4

But I'll make some comments on the below since you've already started 
with that.


> makehistory -O -e -I -F

Any reason you used -I here?  Normally I wouldn't recommend it.


> makehistory: cannot write overview data
> "@05000000000800002CF30000000000000000@"

When this happens, is any explanation logged in news.notice?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org