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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Expiration time for newsgroups
Message-ID: <7749@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 19:46:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 19:46:47 1987
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>  Has anyone considered adding a field to the active file which specifies the
>  default expiration time for that news group?

The C News expire (be patient, general release is coming...) lets you set
expiry time, whether explicit expiry dates should be honored, whether
expired articles should be archived, and where they should be archived,
on a per-group basis.  For example, here's our /usr/lib/news/explist:

-----------
sci.astro,sci.lang,sci.math	14	-
sci.med,sci.physics,sci.space	14	-
news.groups			14	-
talk,rec,soc,misc		14	-
control,junk,tor.news.stats	14	-
mod.map				45	@
mod				30	@
to				2	-
general,hacknews,micros		90	/usr/spool/oldnews
net				14!	@
all				14	@
-----------

(Suffix '!' on the time means ignore explicit expiry dates; archive location
of '-' means "don't" and '@' means "default location".)
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