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From: molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.001832.19898@s1.msi.umn.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 00:18:32 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr23.212341.5125@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr24.160705.29971@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr24.180649.14798@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: The Very Large Group of People Who Wish to Have More Money
Lines: 21

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> An earlier line which
>also covers that group will cause its line to be ignored.  

I've known about this for a long time and I know it is documented and
everything, but am I the only person who thinks it's a huge hole inviting
mistakes by new and old sysadmins alike?  I don't know much (read: nothing)
about the internals of expire, so I have no idea how hard it would be
to make the ordering of the lines non-important, but it sure would be
nice.  Am I missing something obvious here, or shouldn't I be able to
say

local          5 x  -
local.test     1 x  -

I mean, I know this won't work right with the current expire, but would
it be that hard to make it work the way I expect it to?
-- 
Jason Molenda, Tech Support, Iris & News Admin, Minnesota Supercomputer Inst
molenda@msi.umn.edu || "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish."