Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visdc!jiii
From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: expire line abuse
Summary: expire -i
Message-ID: <492@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 01:28:39 GMT
References: <7704@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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I also took a look at the spool directory today and found meagabytes of
"trash" articles containing an Expires: line.  Many were to expire
April 1.

Note that the -i option argument to expire(8) will prevent this problem
while still allowing a SHORTER expiration time to be specified.
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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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