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From group: list.yarn; on Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:56:24 -0400
Concerning "a weird problem with expire..";
~ > Because I run expire -o automatically every morning, and don't
~ > want my mailing lists to expire without me explicitly saying so,
~ > I use expire -r to get rid of read mailing list articles. So I
~ > use expire -r @lists, where the file "lists" contains the name
~ > of all my mailing lists. It seems, however, that it also likes
~ > to expire articles out of comp.security.pgp.discuss. I can't
~ > think of a reason for this, other than I also subscribe to the
~ > pgp-users mailing list (even though I haven't been using pgp ;)).
~ > Even forwarded articles to both c.s.p.d and pgp-users wouldn't be
~ > stored only once, because I download my mailbox straight from my
~ > shell account without going through uqwk. And, there are times
~ > when it will expire everything out of the pseudo-newsgroup, but
~ > nothing out of c.s.p.d.
~ >
~ > Any ideas as to why this is happening?
No, but I have a couple of groups that this always happens in,
so I always store anything I really want from these groups to
a folder before beginning an expire -r. Note that I use
yarn_89 so I believe this is one of a number of problems
(there is another biggy related to ID #'s) that is built right
into the main code.
Unfortunately, I believe this will never be fixed because Chin
(our glorious leader) appears to have lost interest in Yarn. He
probably has to feed his family or something silly like that -
no sense of community responsibility. Also Chin uses -o.
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