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From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.183710.19440@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <1990Aug7.143458.1770@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <747@sci34hub.UUCP> <1990Aug14.181327.16145@eci386.uucp> <101429@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 18:37:10 GMT

In article <101429@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
| 	That is, under normal usage.  If you do an "expire -r" (rebuild
| 	database), expire doesn't look at the history file at all, and
| 	any articles no longer there have their history entries
| 	discarded.  Which is why it ain't a good idea to run B-news
| 	expire unless you're convinced that it's lost a lot of
| 	entries.

| Bnews has saved old history when rebuilding since patch 15.

| If you're going to pick on Bnews deficiencies, at least pick on the
| real ones rather than imaginary ones.

Oops.  Sorry, didn't notice that when I upgraded to PL 19 from 14.  I
don't think I've even run -r since then.

Didn't mean to pick - after all, I *still* run B-news and am not planning
to change in the near future.  I'll just run expire -r more often...
-- 
Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
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