No, you did nothing wrong. When Yarn was upgraded to ver .90, the newsbase
format was changed from using several small files, to have one large news.dat
file. The reasoning behind it was to (eventually) allow for "live" imports and
expires while Yarn was running in another session.
In theory, as news accumulates and expires the NEWS.DAT file should stablize
in size, resulting in a consistently sized news database. For some systems,
this results in a smooth flowing database, where the news.dat file stabalizes
to the largest size it needs to be, holding empty space from an expire until
the next import. (Mine works like this, I assume Chin's, and most systems
where people have space and whatnot ;-) ) However, as seen from the current
threads, many people don't like this because it makes it diffucult to reclaim
free space in a crunch.
And there you have it,
Chris
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