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From: dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire not unlinking old articles
Message-ID: <303@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 02:33:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 28 02:33:23 1986
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Summary: Which date does expire(8) use by default?
In-reply-to: your article <350@megwiz.UUCP>


> 
> There doesn't seem to be any expire line in the
> news article header. So the only place it can get a date is from
> the date line.

You neglected to mention *which* date line you were referring to.
I assume that you meant the "Date:" line in the article itself.
There also is the  field within each line of the history file.
It is not clear from the man page on expire(8) which *date* field
expire(8) uses by default (if you don't use -i or -I):

	- the history file field (the time the article arrived), or
	- the Date: field in the article itself (the time the
	  article was created).
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-Dennis Bednar
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