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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: What I'd like in a news expire program
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.201850.14997@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 20:18:50 GMT
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There's been a number of expire programs posted, but none of them really
have the level of control I'd like. Here's the parameters I'd like to be
able to define:

maximum articles - a group can have no more than this many articles
minimum articles - a group can have no fewer than this many
maximum article size - immediately expire any article bigger than this
minimum days until expire - how long an acceptably sized article should last
maximum days before expire - unless overridden by minimum articles per group
standard expiry - expire unless some other condition prevents it

The last three are handled by the C news expire, pretty well... but some
groups are so low volume that I'd always like to maintain at least the
last article or two on-line. Likewise, sometimes people post huge
messages and I'd like those to always expire immediately, or for
high-volume groups I don't want to keep more than the most recent
hundred or so articles.

Has anyone already implemented this level of expire program??


aem
Has anyone implemented this level of expire program alreayd
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