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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn
Subject: Re: keeping old news
Keywords: expire, archives and nn
Message-ID: <836@texas.dk>
Date: 30 May 91 08:46:13 GMT
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Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark
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swc@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.W. Cox CMP Staff) writes:

>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.

Well you could "fix" expire so that running it without arguments would
use 180 days as the default.

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

Have you ever heard of backups :-)

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Kim F. Storm  <storm@texas.dk>		No news is good news,
Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark		  but nn is better!