Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 02:05:21 +0100

In article <QVcxyoag9nNJ091yn@telusplanet.net>,
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) wrote:
>>What if I edit the active file, so all groups have the expiry set to 1 day,
>>do the rebuild and then edit the active file back t what it was before?
>>Will _all_ my articles be expired tomorrow? Or only the ones that were
>>expiring anyway?
>>
>
>Don't know what would happen but I would like to. Try it and see if
>it goes KABOOM! :) If it works you get the Atta Boy badge, if not
>you get the That Took 'Nads badge *plus* the Had a News.dat badge.

I ended up expiring messages one newsgroup at a time, until I got the
ABNORMAL TERMINATION error, that I have mentioned earlier in another
thread. Then I did a rebuild -s, and set the PC date to Dec 29 1997 and
continued expiring. Then before I did the next rebuild, I set hte date back
to Dec 29 1996. I got my news.dat down from 95 MB to about 26 MB. And I
hope to get it further down. :-)

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