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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Invalid expiration dates in Usenet postings
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.234942.21973@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Feb12.142313.29430@IDA.ORG>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 23:49:42 GMT

In article <1990Feb12.142313.29430@IDA.ORG> roskos@IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos) writes:
>... The invalid dates show up in the error logs
>for "C" news, where one must weed through them to find the real errors,
>wasting already-limited news administrator time...

If you're running a modern version of C News, expire tells you about these
only if you ask it to (with -g).  It ignores them in any case, so filtering
out the messages is harmless.
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