In article <cT+cxgC+P1Pe090yn@io.org>,
where.waldo.is@io.org (Omar Hill) wrote:
>Here we go again... you ran expire -r or expire -o? That Rebuild -s wil
>reset all your import dates.. so if you expire -o then you are going to
>have to wait for the expiry period again (while your messages build up
>like a towering inferno...)... I wish poeple would stop suggesting
>rebuild -s, because in 90% of the cases it seems to cause more
>confusion and have a net negative effect for most users...
Lovely. So now the problem is even worse. :-(
>On another note... i also have some really old posts in my news base i
>found... they also refuse to expire (they also don't show up inside
>yarn in the newsgroup they belong to-- only noticed them while browsing
>my news.dat one day manually (hey a guy has to do global searches
>somehow!)). I was told (by authorative sources <g>) i needed to expire
>-o to rebuild the overview file... but warned that if i do this all the
>numbering in my newsrc will be invalid because it renumbers all the
>messages... so i decided... my news.dat isn't big enough for me to go
>to the trouble <-:. The paradox is of course that if my news.dat does
So I'm screwed either way then? (sigh)
Do you have any idea when this bug will be fixed? Aside from the 40 MB
of space that's being wasted, Yarn is getting slower daily. It now
takes almost ten seconds to exit this thing. :-(
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