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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Dynamic "smart" expiration?
Message-ID: <1120@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 89 23:16:43 GMT
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Reply-To: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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Howzabout going through everyone's .newsrc, determining what groups are not
being read by anyone and expiring them with extreme prejudice - nobody would
notice, really.  Next, expire articles that everybody has already read, 
starting with the least popular newsgroups (by frequency in .newsrc) and
heading towards the most popular last.

Only problem:  some user who consistantly opts to not read a given newsgroups
but doesn't mark it as read, either.


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