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Re: Newbase 0.54 warning

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From: Ian Cripps
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
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In message <19950518.182539.95@callan.demon.co.uk> Simon Callan wrote:

> In article <19950517.222020.62@waveg.demon.co.uk>,
>           richard@waveg.demon.co.uk (Richard Sterry) wrote:
> 
> > In message <19950517.000655.16@callan.demon.co.uk> Simon Callan wrote:
> > 
> > > When Newbase started running the expiry, it deleted 99% of all the
> > > posting in that newgroup, including a couple of *very* important
> > > postings.
> > 
> > Did you lock them when you first read them, Simon, or maybe file them in a
> > folder?
> 
> Since I had set Newbase to *NEVER* expire that newsgroup, I saw no point
> in locking / filing the articles. Newbase 0.53 managed quite well
> without losing a single message.
> 
> The problem was that Newbase 0.54 lost the expiry setting.
> 
> Given how slow Newbase 0.54 is, I think I'm going to try to re-install
> newbase 0.53, until a much improved version is released.
> 
> Simon
> 

What slow in 0.54 then ? I found it to be a bit faster than 0.53.

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Ian Cripps
Software Engineer 
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From: ian@yojoe.demon.co.uk (Ian Cripps)
Subject: Re: Newbase 0.54 warning
Date: 1995/05/18
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