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From: heather@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Heather Burris/)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: expire enhancements
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Date: 1 Aug 90 17:05:26 GMT
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Have any of you enhanced expire to accept different expiration periods
for different news categories on the same command line?  I would like
to do (something like) the following:

expire -n junk control -e 1 -n alt talk -e 14 -n <the rest> -e 21 <other opts>

A cursory look at the source code indicates that a list of structures 
mapping news category/group to expiration period would have to be crafted
in to implement such a thing.  I think the work involved in doing so would
be well warrented, considering that running multiple expires back-to-back 
takes an exceedingly long amount of time. It appears to me that
rebuilding the history file is a large part of the time.

If no one has implemented this yet, I'll plan to get to it soon, but I thought
I'd check before reinventing the wheel. Also, if anyone has an opinion
on whether it is or isn't a good idea, let me know.

Heather Burris
Operations Manager, SEASnet, UCLA