Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File

Sami Kivela (smok@planet.fi)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:51:48 +0200

mlavalle@ViaNet.on.ca (Michael Lavallee) wrote:
>I've got articles dating from well over 30 days - 27 February - in
>newsgroups that I no longer read and have deleted.

I noticed that this happens if I remove the newsgroup before I have expired
all messages in that newsgroup.

I solved the problem by deleting NEWS.DAT, but that probably isn't what
most of those who have this problem would want to do.

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