🚀 go-pugleaf

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
> 
0.54 is much faster for me....mind you I scrapped my old news database
(I'm sure this is the problem) & rebuilt from scratch. If you've lost your
old stuff, why not do this anyway? 


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 Alan :-)
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