Re: the elves have been busy again
John A. Stanley (jstanley@gate.net)
Sun, 12 May 1996 09:11:30 -0400
In article <CSalxou+S+cA090yn@login.eunet.no>,
yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no (Yngvar Folling) wrote:
>First of all, I've noticed that NEWS.DAT never shrinks. It doesn't
>*grow* any more either, but when EXPIRE reports so-and-so many bytes
>deleted, it only seems to mean that this space will be overwritten by
>new messages at the next IMPORT. NEWS.DAT doesn't *shrink* by that
>amount.
>
>Meaning that when some spammer posts a five-megabyte binary, I can't
>reclaim that space on my hard disk afterwards without deleting my entire
>news base.
As has been pointed out before, using REBUILD -S shrinks
news.dat down to unexpired news only.
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John A. Stanley jstanley@gate.net