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Subject: Re: **News not expiring**
To: msv@arisia.net (Mark S. Velasquez)
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> 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