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From: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help- expire problem
Message-ID: <2939@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 00:05:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 00:05:20 1987
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Organization: Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, CT
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In article <37f435e1.d130@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu> hyc@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>In article <170@bnl.ARPA> abrams@bnl.UUCP (Karl L. Abrams) writes:
>%	I have finally gotten around to installing version 2.11 of news,
>%and find that expire seems to be doing funny things to the history file.
>%When an article is due to expire, it is removed from the spool, but its
>%entry in history is only partially removed.  For example, [omitted]
>
>That's not exactly the normal behavior, but that's documented... [omitted]
>the docs say that by default, articles will be removed from the history files
>at the same time that they're deleted from the spool directory.

Actually, it is normal behavior for 2.11 news for articles to remain in
the history file after the articles have been expired.  This is to
prevent messages from re-appearing (due to multiple news feeds, etc).
The default is to expire articles in 14 days and to keep the ID's in
the history file for an additional 14 days.


				Bill McGarry
				Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT

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