From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 14:57:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05041 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05032 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:57:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA13029; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:56:59 -0700 (MST) From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199703102256.PAA13029@hemi.com> Subject: Re: On the topic of news servers.. To: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:56:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> from Jake Hamby at "Mar 10, 97 02:18:18 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jake Hamby wrote: > 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. ... There are many such scripts floating around, some more automatic than others. You may want to visit David Barr's INN page: http://www.math.psu.edu/barr/INN.html he has a "contributed software" section there with various helpful tools. You may be interested in the 'actgroups.shar' script listed there. actgroups.shar - A script which fiddles your expire rate depending on how actively-read a particular group is Regards, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - -------------------------------------------------------------------