Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:48:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        msv@arisia.net (Mark S. Velasquez)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: **News not expiring**
Message-ID:  <199610291948.NAA24755@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961029191034.0090725c@207.100.94.5> from "Mark S. Velasquez" at Oct 29, 96 02:10:34 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Anyway, my news spool still fills up. I've set alt.binaries.* to expire in
> three days, however, there are definitely articles in the alt.binaries that
> are five days old.
> 
>  The expire.ctl is as follows :
> 
> /remember/:14
> #
> # use expire to remove deleted newsgroups immediately
> #
> *:A:0:0:0
> *:U:0:7:31
> *:M:0:14:365
> #  keep for 7 days
> *:A:1:7:7
> ## keep the binaries newsgroups for 3 days only
> #
> alt.binaries.*:A:1:3:3

Are these articles crossposted to groups which are not in alt.binaries.*?

They will be held onto longer, if they are..

... JG



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610291948.NAA24755>