Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!shadooby!sharkey!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: expire extention idea Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 15:17:39 GMT References: <9208@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 13 >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 If you can switch to C news, I will soon be posting a version of rnews that does a progressive expire if space is low. It eliminates guessing what you should expire at to prevent disk space problems and allows you to run right at the edge of a full disk. -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology