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 Lines: 20 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