Newsgroups: comp.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Monthly posting on USENET manual set
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 05:31:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.053152.9670@looking.on.ca>
References: <1990Sep06.215045.25117@virtech.uucp> <4547@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <5552@stpstn.UUCP> <1990Sep11.034930.7175@uokmax.uucp>
Keywords: manuals, usenet

In article <1990Sep11.034930.7175@uokmax.uucp> rmtodd@uokmax.uucp (Richard Michael Todd) writes:
>more obscure ones would be helpful.  (Speaking of which, does anyone know
>where I can get a copy of the "pexpire" program for C News, that automatically
>lowers the expire times on newsgroups that nobody reads?  Sounds like a really
>useful tool, and I don't recall finding it in any of the comp.sources groups...)

Instead, why not have your feed site try dynafeed, which will stop it from
*feeding* you groups that nobody reads, so that you don't have to worry
about when they expire.  (As soon as anybody resubscribes, the feed starts
again, and some number of back articles are sent, too.)

Ftp from uunet, ./ClariNet/dynafeed.tar.Z  -- this is the beta, comments
are encouraged.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473