Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Questions re "Expires:" and cross-posting
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.173414.11057@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8549@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <234@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 89 17:34:14 GMT

In article <234@teslab.lab.OZ> charles@teslab.lab.oz.au (Charles W. Widepy) writes:
>* Is it possible to prevent the use of the "Expires:" postnews
>option?

Not readily.  It's really easy to just edit up your article with whatever
headers you want and give it to "inews -h".  The real fix is to have a way
to tell expire "articles are not allowed to stay around more than N days,
regardless of what their headers say".  C News expire has this; the prototype
expire-control file that we include sets a 90-day default limit, which can
be overridden on a group-by-group basis.
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