I played and found that when I use expire -r, the articles
I've marked as read get removed from the
yarn article list but most of them did NOT get deleted from
the news.dat file, hence the growth.
The doc clearly states that expire -r should delete these
articles but it does not work for me.
Further testing showed that running expire -r and then
running rebuild -s made the news.dat file
shrink by deleting the offending articles.
To make things more confusing, this doesn't seem to be
completely reproducible. I saw this happen
at least 4 times in a row but instead of not shrinking at
all, the news.dat file would shrink a tiny bit
when I expired articles with expire -r.
Then, one time I used expire -r and it emptied the news.dat
file like it should have without me
resorting to rebuild -s.
Am I doing something obviously wrong?
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