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From: carl@bdaemon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Should the Usenet/UUCP maps have extended expiration dates?
Message-ID: <355@bdaemon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 22:19:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 22:19:40 1986
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> The map postings to mod.map are made with extended expiration
> dates -- 30 days, to be exact -- so they don't get expired (erased)
> as soon as other postings are.  The consequence of this is that they
> take up a lot of disk space for a longer than usual time.  They are
> valuable, but they also take up a lot of space.
...
etc., etc.
> 
> Well, how *would* they (that's you) like to deal with that?
> -- 
> Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

The answer is easy.  Leave things as they are and let those, like us, put
the following lines into a file that is executed by cron every night:

... lots of stuff and then

# clean up news

/usr/lib/news/expire -I -e1 -n net.games -n mod.politics
/usr/lib/news/expire -I -e3 -n mod.map
/usr/lib/news/expire -I -e5

N.B. We get only a limited amount of news, but the above lines let us read
(and possible save) the map, yet do not fill up our 30M disk.  In other
words, let each site use the available tools to their advantage.