Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Question about Cnews /expired/ line
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.225346.17674@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan11.162733.15370@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 22:53:46 GMT

In article <1991Jan11.162733.15370@cmcl2.nyu.edu> rosenblg@acf3.nyu.edu (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
>/expired/	x   14   -
>rec.equestrian  x   22   -
>
>	are history lines for rec.equestrian saved for 22 days?  it's
>not clear to me.  thanks.

Articles in rec.equestrian will expire (by default) after 22 days, at which
point their history lines will evaporate instantly.  The /expired/ line
becomes significant only when the article has expired.
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