From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 16:31:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11741 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11734 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA18461 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:30:34 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id BAA25953 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:30:01 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA20010; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:23:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970311012300.06800@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:23:00 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On the topic of news servers.. References: <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.65,1-4,10,14-18 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2999 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- 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