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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: looking for forceful expire program/script
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 19:40:18 EST
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> > ...  I find may articles with dates going back to ... last year...  Does
> > anybody have a program/script ... which will delete these old files ...
> 
>      A while back (few months?) someone posted a shell  script  called
> histmiss  which found all of the articles not in the history file (and
> so those which would never be  expired).

In 2.10.2, at least, "expire -r" will not only find those articles, but
will put them back in the history file where they belong.  It takes a while,
because it reads the header of every article, but it's worth doing every
so often (things leak out of the history file now and then).
-- 
	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy