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From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: article expiration
Message-ID: <726@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 19:50:16 GMT
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In article <6742@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
> Must 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).

Back when I was running a news machine, we had enough spool for about
5 days of news - expire isn't real effective when you don't have
much news around, and runs too slowly for more than once/day.
So we'd let expire do its thing, but every hour we'd check if the
disk was too full, and simply trash the oldest articles.  If that
still didn't work, it was find -mtime +4 -print | xargs rm .
Maybe C News would have helped, and it wouldn't have been too tough
to egrep -v newusers, but basically if you need space you need it now.
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