Re: Deleteing Unwanted Messages.

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sat, 07 Sep 1996 18:12:39 -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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>* LabRat@i-link.net * Just because you're paranoid doesn't *
>* Michael.Gray@1201.ima.infomail.com * mean they're not out to get you *
>=============================================================================
>Communication.. without it, everyone's a mushroom.
>

Wow... someone (other than myself) is actually using bnews. :-)

v0.93a3 is available for beta testing from my web page;

http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/index.html#bnews

Added a /cnew (NEWNEWS) switch, and fixed a bug when '.' is the first
char of a line.

Also added a /o switch to read/write stdin/stdout, so you can pass it thru
a filter, such as;

bnews /cover | bnewsfilter | bnews /cart > art.uue
bnews /cover | bnewsfilter | bnews /cart | uudeview -i -
type <group>.get.txt | bnews /cart | uudeview -io -

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Phil Crown
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