Re: Yarn 0.91 expire -r bug
A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Mon, 01 Jul 1996 23:17:30 -0700
In article <52z1xkW2vryN091yn@daina.bga.com>,
mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:
[snip]
>p.s. I have a philosophy difference with Chin. Some articles can be
> clearly identified for discarding BEFORE the newsgroup's regular
> expire date - for instance, if somebody posted the binary of a
> copyrighted program to the newsgroup. I would like to see a Yarn
> command (ctl-D, perhaps) which would "mark" that specific article
> in a newsgroup for deletion. And a new "expire -d" capability,
> which would get rid of those explicitly marked articles whether
> they had been read or not.
And of course a corresponding score file option "deletethreshold n" to
set the score value below which messages are automatically flagged for
deletion. Don't know that you'd need a specific "expire -d" option,
just delete them the next time any expire is run on that newsgroup.