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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: news
Message-ID: <1988Feb8.230346.1986@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: news, flood, alarm
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8802050452.AA03771@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <314@yunexus.UUCP>, <984@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Feb-88 23:03:42 EST

> This would probably be a minor patch to the expire program...

I wouldn't call it minor, actually.  More to the point, however, this can
be done with no changes to expire at all.  C News expire does its thing
according to a control file which can be arbitrarily detailed.  Just
write a program that looks at the .newsrcs and the batcher queues and
generates a suitable control file for expire.
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