Re: News.dat

Michael Gray (LabRat@i-link.net)
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:12:46 -0500

In article <A7yQykW2vrQf092yn@daina.bga.com>, mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:
>In article <cVgQyY5faRYQ092yn@i-link.net>,
>LabRat@i-link.net (Michael Gray) wrote:
>>
>> My news.dat is ~37MB and is slowly
>> shrinking due to my resetting my personal mail expire date from 31 to
>> 7 days.
>
>In my case, Yarn seems to take perverse pleasure in sticking AT THE END
>articles from the pseudo-newsgroup whose expire date is set to 999.
>(These are articles I *don't* want to expire, but since folders have
>lesser capabilities than newsgroups, I don't want them put in a folder.)

I shouldn't have opened my mouth. Yarn seems to have chosen that
packet to cross-link a message, which showed up as any of several
other unrelated messages. The database was shrinking slowly and since
I wanted to recover the lost space I had wanted to shrink it quickly.
So I had to. Rebuild -h didn't work (just changed the cross links to
other messages.) I don't quite understand why your pseudo-newsgroup
would wind up at the end, since they are mail messages and should be
imported FIRST (at least they are on my system.)

>I've _never_ seen my news.dat shrink by itself.
>
>(Even when I have run rebuild -s, I seem to forget to run expire when I
> should, and news.dat balloons up again to where it was.)

That's easy for me since my .cmd file expires before importing any
messages - automatic, so there's not much more than a day or so worth
of read messages.

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