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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:13:55 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        michael@blueneptune.com
Cc:        pete@ns.altadena.net (Pete Carah), jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: News... 
Message-ID:  <29942.861293635@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:39:02 PDT." <199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com> 

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michael@blueneptune.com wrote in message ID
<199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com>:
> It's pretty simple to write a quick script which will go through the
> news spool and remove all files of a particular size, or at least
> report to you what they are.  We don't run one on  a regular basis,
> but will run it to clear out some space if the news disk starts to
> fill up and cause problems.

It's even easier to write a channel feed which gets the headers of all
messages over (x) bytes in size and auto-cancels them. Or with inn 1.5
it may even be possible in the perl/tcl hooks (I don't think so tho)

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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