This is a private reply to your message of: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:30:59 -0500
From Newsgroup: list.yarn. Titled: "Re: Rogue Posts in News.dat":
~ > In article <MdQwxc6r3rbI091yn@io.org>, cthuang@io.org wrote:
~ > >
~ > > 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.
~ >
~ > Doesn't make sense to me. Suppose the articles (accidentally or
~ > deliberately) were set to expire in 777 days. Now that there is
~ > no way of looking at those articles again, why bother to leave
~ > them hanging around ?
My two bits. I keep all newsgroups for 514 days since I only use
expire -r. Oh how I long for controlled (specific) removal.
My prayers went unanswered for so long
That I became a Broccolist.
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