Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!radio.astro.utoronto.ca!radio.astro!brian From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) Subject: Re: Dynamic "smart" expiration? In-Reply-To: tale@cs.rpi.edu's message of 31 Dec 89 23:13:31 GMT Message-ID: Sender: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) Organization: Radio Astronomy, Univeristy of Toronto References: <1989Dec27.033817.9953@smsc.sony.com> <1989Dec28.063932.13720@robohack.UUCP> <68634@looking.on.ca> <1989Dec29.213539.2801@utzoo.uucp> <6118@yunexus.UUCP> <69448@looking.on.ca> <1120@utoday.UUCP> <`QF52&@rpi.edu> <69654@looking.on.ca> <89Dec31.171430es <1+G_R_@rpi.edu> Date: 31 Dec 89 18:43:41 If you're going to do something like this you need to put the .newsrc format in some rfc. At least one newsreader (Gnews) does not use .newsrc files, it uses .gnewsrc files that are full of emacs lisp stuff. -- Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca uunet!utai!radio!brian glendenn@utorphys.bitnet