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From: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: expire extention idea
Message-ID: <9208@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:23:59 GMT
Reply-To: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Excuse me if this already exists in some expire programs.  I haven't
seen it.

If your news spool is temporarily very close to full, it would be nice
if expire were to kill off more articles than the number of days
requested would otherwise kill.  It would be nice to give expire an
option to trash articles that otherwise aren't old enough to get rid
of.  A flag telling what newsgroups are suggested for accellerated
expiration in the event of space problems would be most useful, at
least from my superficial consideration of the problem.  In other
words, make it so you can expire stuff the usual way, but if space is
still over 80% full, expire an extra day of rec.humor (or whatever).

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	Steve Schonberger	microsoft!stevesc@uunet.uu.net
	"Working under pressure is the sugar that we crave" --A. Lamb