Re: Deleteing Unwanted Messages.

Michael Gray (LabRat@i-link.net)
Fri, 06 Sep 1996 21:50:08 -0500

In article <f9NLyIIel8mV091yn@worf.netins.net>, phdss@worf.netins.net (Brett Tabke) wrote:
>Is there anyway to delete a message directly out of the main message
>base without marking all other messages as unread and then running
>expire?

No.

>I get a few binary groups which can run 5-10 meg a day and some
>other packets that run a few meg a day..so...

I set the expire date for my binary groups to only 2 days. That way
some are expired at each expire -o, keeping the size of the news
database under control. I've also set the max lines to 1000 globally
and use Phil Crown's Bnews to retrieve any of the larger binaries.
It's a really nice program now, and up to v0.92. Unfortunately for
you DOS/Win users, it's OS/2 only. Not as fast as Souper in
retrieving news, but it also doesn't clog up your database.

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