Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!pilchuck!tim From: tim@Data-IO.COM (The Daemon's Slave) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: New expire command: Request for beta sites Message-ID: <1055@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> Date: 2 Dec 88 20:51:41 GMT References: <13516@terminus.UUCP> <1988Dec1.175612.13244@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: tim@Data-IO.COM (Tim Rosmus) Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA Lines: 21 In article <1988Dec1.175612.13244@utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer writes: => In article <13516@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP writes: => >On seeing David Taylor's pexpire, I finally got the impetus to write => >an expire command which does not need multiple runs if you want to => >vary expire times for different newsgroups... => => Uh, might I point out that C News expire, released over a year ago, already => does this? There were also some patches to expire sent out a couple of years ago (or more) that allowed expiration of different newsgroups at different times. Sorry, I don't remeber who sent them out. As the new releases of news came out I just kept porting the patches up to the current version so I've had this feature for over two years now. --..uunet Tim Rosmus (Sys Admin) ..sun!fluke----------\ | Data I/O Corporation ..uw-beaver------------!tikal!pilchuck!tim 10525 Willows Road N.E. ..decvax!microsoft---/ Redmond, WA (206)881-6444