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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Expire Working???
Message-ID: <1990Jul03.170836.25136@nstar.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 90 17:08:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul1.203051.15428@supernet.harris-adacom.com>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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cluther@supernet.harris-adacom.com (Clay Luther) writes:

>I am wondering if Expire is working properly.  After having our feed up
>for a little over a week, we are already running short of disk space,
>relatively.  We started with 146MB, and are already down to 27MB.


After running with cnews for the last month - I've noticed the same thing.

After doing some quick checking, I've noticed messages in groups like
alt.sys.amiga with expire dates in them 60 days in the future - so 
I am assuming the problem is related to these types of messages..

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