Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <1988Aug22.021018.25125@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 88 02:10:18 GMT

In article <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>a software fix is possible: modify expire so that by default it doesn't
>touch n.a.u.  That is, it requires an explicit -nau flag.  And Gene can
>start superseding the articles.

Of course, if you run C news (plug plug), selective expiry is trivial to
do.  (I don't know if 3.0 does the same -- hope so.)
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