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From: sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Package to remove old news floods
Keywords: old news, Cnews, routers
Message-ID: <1759@eru.mt.luth.se>
Date: 2 Mar 91 12:33:26 GMT
References: <9Y`#-6-@linac.fnal.gov>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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In article <9Y`#-6-@linac.fnal.gov> palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John Palkovic) writes:
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|I came up with a shell script to remove new news articles with old
|Date: headers. Neil Rickert made some useful modifications and this is
|the result. It needs header.c, so that is included. I got header.c
|from Chip Salzenberg's deliver package. You will have to compile and
|link header and place it in the PATH in order for the script to work.

Hmmmmm.... This is from the manual page for expire.

     -p   causes expire to use the date the article  was  posted,
          rather than the date it arrived at your machine, as the
	  basis for expiration. Every now and  then  there  is  a
          time  warp that causes a batch of very very old news to
          be dumped onto the network; judicious  use  of  the  -p
          option can eradicate it.

Sven-Ove