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From: Norm Mackey <danlaw@rust.net>
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Gary Palmer wrote:
> 
> 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)

I hope by "auto cancel" you mean "removes them from the feed", not the
"tell the internet to delete someone else's post" definition for 
"cancels".