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From: swc@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.W. Cox CMP Staff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn
Subject: keeping old news
Keywords: expire, archives and nn
Message-ID: <1226@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 12:13:52 GMT
Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK
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I wonder if anybody can help. I'm setting up local news groups here and have 
come across a problem with archiving. We want to keep archives for 6 months
at least for the local groups. Using the archive facilities of expire to
keep them would make it impossible for nn to access them, but nn's own archive
facility does not allow previously read articles to be ignored. This would
be a great pain if you had to search through half a years worth of info just
to find a couple of recent posts.

Basically, we want the system to appear as if these local groups are only
expired every six months but there is the risk that expire may be run
with no arguments which would destroy the old articles prematurely.

Any ideas how to achieve this without the threat of loosing them?

Thanks, Steve Cox.

swc@sys.uea.ac.uk