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From: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News Loops -- Intensity, and a fix
Message-ID: <363@crash.cts.com>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:04:24 GMT
References: <3632@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <3632@itivax.iti.org> scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>A judicious use of the -p switch in expire does a good job of cleaning
>out the old news.  I've been using three days more than our standard
>expiration period and had good luck.  Doing it today changed the number
>of two-day-old articles from 1837 to 785.

Would you care to define 'judicious use'?  The man entry for expire
says about the same thing and is just as unclear.