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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:23:00 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: On the topic of news servers..
Message-ID:  <19970311012300.06800@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov>

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According to Jake Hamby:
> 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

You could use dexpire (dynamic expire) that has a similar scheme or some
other ones. I have this here. Never tested one though. No time...

-rw-r--r--  1 roberto  staff  256380 May  5  1996 ctlexpire.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 roberto  staff   75298 Jan  6 02:46 dexpire-3.3a3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 roberto  staff    6159 Sep 28  1995 spexpire.shar.gz

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Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb  2 22:12:44 CET 1997



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