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From: greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: How do I tell expire to never expire a single group under Cnews?.
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.024146.1575@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Date: 13 Aug 90 02:41:46 GMT
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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I think I've managed to set up my explist file correctly; but there is one
thing that doesn't seem too clear from the manual page for expire:
How do I tell expire to never expire a single group under Cnews?. We have
one group that I never want anything expired from; I figured that by setting
the three expire date fields to something huge, it won't ever get around to
expiring articles - is this correct?.

At the moment my explist file looks like this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# modified version, no archiving
#
# hold onto history lines 14 days, nobody gets >90 days
/expired/			x	14	-
/bounds/			x	0-1-90	-

# override later defaults for some groups of note
all.sources,all.sources.all	x	10	-
aus.all				x	10	-
comp.os.minix			x	10	-
comp.unix.i386			x	10	-

# don't ever expire local.permanent
local.permanent			x	10000-10000-10000	-

# big non-tech groups held long enough for a long weekend
sci,rec,talk,soc,misc,alt	u	4	-

# real noise gets thrown away fast
news.groups			x	2	-
junk				x	1	-

# default:  7 days don't archive
all				x	7	-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
local.permanent is the group in question; will this work ok?.

							thanks,
								Greyham.
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