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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.groups
Subject: "One Day Expire" on some news groups - help, I'm only a user
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:20:02 EDT
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My system, parcvax, is administered really by people who have full-time
jobs, and help out as they can, "in their spare time."  They have tried
to address this problem, but they are stumped.

A *few* newsgroups seem to have a "one day" expire.  Most groups are fine.
Now, the articles in question are all still in the spool files, and I can
always read them there using cat or more.  (Pain!!!)  But, one of the
groups in question, comp.sys.ibm.pc, is one of my favorites.  

We had a brief discussion internally about this, and the suggestions for
using a different news reader or editing my .newsrc file didn't solve the
problem.  I use rn, and we are a BSD 4.3 site.

Apparently, the problem has something to do with the "active files".  I'm
not a developer or a UNIX expert.  I just use the system for news, mail,
and arpanet access.

Can anyone advise on how to proceed.  Please bear in mind that I will
package the replies and send them on to the administrators.  I wouldn't
even think of doing anything myself, even if I had the privileges. 
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

 
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