Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with c-news expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.210451.11681@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 21:04:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp> <1991Apr16.194717.8358@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr17.171052.6928@pensoft.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr17.171052.6928@pensoft.uucp> mike@pensoft.uucp (Mike Heath) writes:
>$ expire < /dev/null
>expire: group `alt.activism' (unmoderated) not covered by control file (no detai
>ls given)

Hmm.  While it is "customer error", that's not a very informative diagnosis.
Okay, expire has now been fixed -- it'll show up in the next patch -- to
squawk explicitly about an empty control file.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry