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>If the newsbase seems to grow or not to shrink when an unusual
>amount of articles have been deleted, the reason may be that an
>article copied to a folder with very long retention period is the
>last item in the newsbase. Since expire will not compress the base,
>it will never shrink below the end of that last article.
Huh???? Are you saying that if I have an article copied to a folder,
that article doesn't get deleted from my news.dat file? That's insane!
I really hope I'm misunderstanding what you're saying here.
>Keep in mind that too much shrinking and growing of the base will
>slow down the system by increased fragmentation. This will be
>very bad on a FAT system, but will also occur on an HPFS drive.
That's what defrag is good for. :)
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