Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: expire extention idea
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.170654.7404@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9208@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 17:06:54 GMT

In article <9208@microsoft.UUCP> stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) writes:
>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...

You can do this sort of thing with C News expire by dynamically generating
control files for it.

I looked a bit at giving it more built-in smarts about space, but doing
anything intelligent about that is a bit tricky.  I eventually decided
that people generating control files dynamically can be arbitrarily
clever, so I shouldn't try to duplicate their efforts. :-)
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