From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: old news archives 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2196
Posted: Mon Jun 21 18:44:33 1982
Received: Mon Jun 21 18:44:33 1982

The old-news archives have been reshuffled a bit.  Everything is now under
/usr/spool/oldnews.  In there, "cur" is the directory into which expire(8)
puts expiring articles.  The a* directories are old A news, indexed by the
aindex file.  The software is now set up to rename "cur" periodically to
a name of the form b, to control its growth.