Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews expire problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.194758.3101@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb20.161636.9861@cimage.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 19:47:58 GMT

In article <1991Feb20.161636.9861@cimage.com> brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley) writes:
>-rw-rw-r--  1 news         1502 Jan  4 20:22 1190
>...
>Message-ID: <4f015001.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>

Have you tried "newshist 4f015001.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM"?  If the article
is not in your history file -- normally this is the result of something
traumatic like a crash or a full filesystem -- then it *cannot* be expired.
Dealing with situations like this is the job of the "addmissing" command
that was recently added to C News.
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