From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 14:35:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03773 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03768 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id WAA03797; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:35:15 GMT Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:35:14 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Jake Hamby cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On the topic of news servers.. In-Reply-To: <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Jake Hamby wrote: > Regarding recent articles about how best to set up a news server, I talked to > the guy who runs my ISP last night about how he was able to manage so well > serving news from, if you can believe this, a Mac Quadra running A/UX !!! > > He says he uses a Perl script to run through the activity log and figure out > which groups his customers are reading, then changes the expire logs to expire > messages in unread groups after 1 day, while keeping messages in read groups > about 7 days. This seemed like a really good idea to me, and I have had no > problems using the news server to read/post to various groups, and it seems to > have a "fuller" feed than either JPL or my university, which seem to be dropping > messages, even though they are run from much more capable server boxes! > > If anyone is interested in the script, I could probably get him to forward it to > me. Just let me know. > > -- Jake > Here's another cool trick for expire.ctl that immediately discards rmgrouped articles. ## Allow Expires headers to work. ## Discard rmgrouped articles *:A:0:0:0 *:U:0:8:8 *:M:0:10:10 Regards, Mike Hancock