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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: article expiration
Summary: was: net abbreviations
Message-ID: <3195@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 00:02:50 GMT
References: <3877@utastro.UUCP> <431fc60f.15831@gtephx.UUCP> <3897@utastro.UUCP> <6742@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <3897@utastro.UUCP> james@utastro.UUCP (James McCartney) writes:
>>   Still no one has answered my second question : How do I read the articles in
>>news.announce.newusers ? When I do 'readnews news.announce.newusers' I get
>>'No news.' I also tried using -x with the same result.

In article <6742@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
>Muts be your site admin expires news without paying any heed to the
>"Expires" header line.  I post the stuff to news.announce.newusers
>every 4 to 6 weeks (depending on amount of change and my workload).

Unfortunately, many news admins do this, mainly because of Expires: abuse.
Every once in a while, someone complains in the news.* groups about people
who think their articles should be retained until the 21st century, and
a chorus of answers come in, talking about expire -I, which, of course,
throws out the news.announce.users babies with the talk.bizarre bathwater.
Of course, you can do multiple expire runs...

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