Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Expire by Date:
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.223927.4295@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 22:39:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.012332.20774@massey.ac.nz> <1991Mar14.194554.12750@zoo.toronto.edu> <580@rufus.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <580@rufus.UUCP> shoens@ibm.com writes:
>What I would rather do is give expire two objectives:  get me back B
>blocks of free space and I free inodes.  Then, expire should
>essentially rank the articles that I currently have and delete the
>least precious ...
>Or does CNews expire already support what I'm suggesting?

No provision for it at present.  I thought about this a bit, long ago,
but getting a precise definition of "least precious", in the presence
of complications like different expiry times for different groups, is
tricky.  I decided that I didn't know what the policy should be and
so I wouldn't try.
-- 
"[Some people] positively *wish* to     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry