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From: stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire group (moderated) not covered... error - cnews
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.161129.21326@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 16:11:29 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.045606.486@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca>
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In article <1990Dec19.045606.486@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> news@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (News Login) writes:
>I get this error message from trying to expire in Cnews, and I'm sure 
>it's just a configuration error but I can't seem to track it down.
>
>Some help would be much appreciated, anyways the error message is...
>expire problems:
>expire: group `alt.gourmand' (moderated) not covered by control file
>
>what does this mean?
>

It means that in your $NEWSCTL/explist file, you don't have something
like:

# default:  15 days
all                             x       15      -

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