> be high volume (some thing I normally avoid) it grew my
> NEWS.DAT file to over 30 Meg. How do I get it back down to
> some thing more in the 'normal' (for me) range?
What I've been doing is to run "expirex -r" and then "rebuild -s" each
time. This will purge out all read articles and then rebuild the
NEWS.DAT, shrinking it in the process.