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Re: Expire old newsbatches not mail

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From: Gregory Youngblood
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:35
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rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:

> jos@swamp.waterland.wlink.nl (Jos van der Meer) writes:
> 
> | To keep the harddisk from filling up, I need a program which deletes old
> | newsbatches when they are not collected by sites, but keeps the mail for th
> | sites.
> | I remember someone mentioning a program which could achieve this, but I
> | forgot the name. The halcyon.com index could not give me a clue either.
> | Anyone ?
> 
> I have such a beast.... and will probably release it soon.
> 
> Any other UUCLEAN*.* which I've released SHOULD BE AVOIDED.... nasty bugs
> releated to not switching drives before doing the Grim Reaper bit.
> 
> Also, the new UUCLEAN will also come with a new program I wrote, which
> will bounce a message back to senders of failed EMail....  So now people
> will get a message "This message could not be delivered in X days" ...
> 
> The UUCLEAN at halcyon (if it's there) is NOT the right one... the new
> version should be v1.2, no less.  DESTROY THE OTHERS!  Thanks...

CWEXP will work for this as well.  While I'm the author, check into it.  It
is real slick.

Greg

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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
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Subject: Re: Expire old newsbatches not mail
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:35:23 CST
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