Re: Rogue Posts in News.dat
Chin Huang (cthuang@io.org)
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 02:31:40 -0400
In article <PJCwxI5Jo6DG090yn@ritz.mordor.com>,
woody@ritz.mordor.com (Mark Weinstock) wrote:
>A while back, I subscribed to a newsgroup that had quite a large backlog on
>my ISP's server. I ended up with a large number of posts in my news.dat
>file. It seems that when I rmgroup-ed it, not all of the messages in
>news.dat had been purged. Is there some way to get rid of these random
>posts?
This is a bug. In version 0.91, the "expire -o" command will expire
the articles in a removed newsgroup. The articles will still hang
around in the news.dat file until they normally would have expired.