Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!emv
From: emv@umix.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Missing history file??
Message-ID: <3913@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 19:44:49 GMT
References: <1219@cos.com>
Reply-To: emv@umix.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
Lines: 10
Summary: 13 expires a night is a bit much
UUCP-Path: {uunet,rutgers}!umix!emv


In article <1219@cos.com> asp@cos.com (Andrew S. Partan) writes:
>It seems to have happened during my expire run.  I run 13 expires every
>night, each with a different set of newsgroups for different amounts of
>time.  The history file seems to have gone away either before or during
>the 3rd or 4th expire run.

13 expires a night sounds like a bit much to me.  If there's
some groups that you keep around for 45 days, let's say, then
it would probably be sufficient to expire them weekly.  Even
three week groups can handle a twice a week expire.