The more I think about it, the more I think Chin should re-think the
rebuild -s option to either leave the expirey date as is when you rebuild
or let you specify to reset it.
I also am running around a 100 meg news.dat, some of it due to what
most might think as an excessive expire time of 30 to 45 days on a few
newsgroups. I also have found that I add newsgroups for a short time
and then remove them if I find the topic really does not interest me.
On the short term groups though, I do perform an 'expire -o -d 999'
before I remove them from the yarn active file. I am pretty confidant
that the space is available for use, just not optimized to allow the
file to be shrunk properly.
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