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From: chen@gt-stratus.UUCP (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Need help with 2.10.3 expire
Message-ID: <343@gt-stratus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 21:56:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: gt-strat.343
Posted: Sun May 11 21:56:36 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 13-May-86 01:31:06 EDT
References: <750@rclex.UUCP> <713@smeagol.UUCP>
Reply-To: chen@gt-stratus.UUCP (Ray Chen)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
Lines: 17
Keywords: expire
Xref: watmath net.news.adm:690 net.news.b:1370 net.news.sa:301
Summary: It's a bug.

In article <750@rclex.UUCP>, walt@rclex.UUCP (Walter L. Weber) writes:
> After getting my system cleaned up I thought I would go through and expire
> the garbage articles, and FOOLISHLY did not back up the news directory before
> kicking off "expire -v7 -e0 -I -f Unknown@hplabs.UUCP >&RESULTS".
> 
> My questions are:
>       ...  I have either mis-understood the use of "-f somebody@where"
>       or there is a bug in expire.

It's a bug.  Gene ran an "expire -f Unknown@hplabs.UUCP" on gatech
recently and it killed off just about everything in the net and mod
groups.

See message 3519@gatech in net.news.config for the gory details.

	Ray Chen
	gatech!chen