Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!terminus!nyssa
From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Auto-expiration of news
Message-ID: <13658@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 15:49:19 GMT
References: <1066@psuhcx.psu.edu> <2694@sultra.UUCP> <1988Dec2.184323.7511@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
Organization: Terminus
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In article <1988Dec2.184323.7511@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Note that any scheme which examines .newsrc needs to have some sort of
>rule about how recent a .newsrc has to be before it is considered.
>Otherwise a single user, who theoretically reads a lot of news but hasn't
>been on for six months, fouls the whole thing up.

The selection criteria for pexpire include:

.newsrc touched within a compile time specificied time period OR
within the history expiration time

The newsgroup being subscribed to

The last article read from that newsgroup being in the range of
articles on the system.

Therefore, a user who hasn't read news for 6 months won't be looked
at, unless you save the news for that long.
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jr		nyssa@terminus.UUCP