Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: expire extention idea
Message-ID: <1989Dec4.173630.23053@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9208@microsoft.UUCP> <247@fortytwo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 89 17:36:30 GMT

In article <247@fortytwo.UUCP> tim@fortytwo.UUCP (Tim Baker) writes:
>It would also be nice if rnews would stop if there is no more room on the
>spool directory.  If there is not enough space, rnews just keeps spitting
>out error messages and trashes all the news it is trying to process.
>This may only occur with sites with space limitations, but it would be
>a nice feature for us.

Fixed in C News, to the extent that a graceful fix is possible.
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