Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do I tell expire to never expire a single group under Cnews?.
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.174817.16551@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug13.024146.1575@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 17:48:17 GMT

In article <1990Aug13.024146.1575@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>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?...

At the moment, giving it a big number is all you can do.  Provision for
some more explicit way of saying "never" is on the to-be-done list.

When choosing big numbers, beware of integer overflow; 32 bits is none
too large for this application.  "10000" (slightly under 30 years) is safe
for the next decade or two.
-- 
It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry