Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat
From: Steven M. Sawczyn (steve@sawczyn.com)
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 13:53:32 -0500
In article <000e01bf3d43$450630c0$722d7fce@ppp1.dorsai.org>,
"Steve Coletti" <bigsteve@dorsai.org> wrote:
>Just one thing to remember when using rebuild, all the active messages have
>their dates reset to the current date. In other words, anything that would
>have expired between the day you ran rebuild and the day that is the number
>of days you have set for retention for that newsgroup will stay around to
>that day.
OK, so if I run expire first, I should presumably be all set right? I
usually run expire with the -r option as I usually don't want articles
to be expired before I've gotten a chance to read them, usually I'm done
reading them by the time the expiration period is over anyway.
Steve
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