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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: tor.news,ont.uucp
Subject: Re: news
Keywords: news, flood, alarm
Message-ID: <1484@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 00:38:01 GMT
References: <8802050452.AA03771@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <314@yunexus.UUCP> <584@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <440@spectrix.UUCP> <304@yunccn>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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I have written the answer to your problem, namely an expiring program
that is based on disk space rather than time.  You say, "keep 10000 blocks,
toss the rest".

With minor mods the program could be keyed into inews itself, so that
it keeps a list of the articles that are due to go, and every time inews
gets a new article, it dumps enough space (and keeps track of the balance)
so that your news disk or inode usage is always constant to within one
article.

I will post this after a couple of days safe use here.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473