Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 22:54:17 -0400 From: Norm Mackey <danlaw@rust.net> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: michael@blueneptune.com, Pete Carah <pete@ns.altadena.net>, jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <3356E259.528F@rust.net> References: <29942.861293635@orion.webspan.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".
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