Re: Expire -o JUNK doesn't.

Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:07:15 +0100 (MET)

In article <L6sxyodl5u/H089yn@islandnet.com>,
phigson@islandnet.com (Peter Higson) wrote:
> >Does anyone else have this problem?
> >
> >My Junk newsgroup is set for: keep = 1 Max-keep = 2.
> >(The latter is just an experiment, it used to be unspecified but
> >changing it made no difference).
> >
> >Day by day Junk keeps growing.

I've got some slightly different experiences. The messages *are*
expired. Only the entries in the article selection list aren't, so they
end up referring to empty messages.

When new messages are imported, the "junk" messages often end up
referring to some completely unrelated messages, but they are also
imported to their correct newsgroups, where they are deleted after the
normal expiration time for that group. The extraneous entries in "junk"
*are* deleted eventually, but I haven't found a rule for when that
happens.

In article <Nvyxyo3qBuMC092yn@airmail.net>,
pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
> Don't the doc's say that if everything is setup properly, you should
> never receive messages to the junk area?

Usually, it happens to me with excessively long Newsgroups lines, which
uqwk breaks in two or more lines.

Yngvar