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In article <830215383snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

> wb> to be expired.  Making them unread would do that for me with the revised
> wb> specification.
> 
> I have thoughts of a 'keep' function in snews, implemented much
> the same way as 'delete' and SnzPrune.
> 
> Also SnzPrune ought to be able to note Supersedes lines
> and/or Expires.

Methinks that the logical step here would be to merge Expire and Snzprune
into one big messy meaty conglomerate utility, which would take note of any
Expires and Supercedes: headers (with perhaps min, max and default expiry
times) etc.

This program would also skip gracefully any newsgroups it cannot expire,
without messing up indices.  It should also process the newsgroups in size
order (smallest first), to try to prevent disk full errors.  This wonder
utility should also cause porcine creatures to become airborne... ;)

> wb> 
> wb> Malcolm has expressed concerns that EXPIRE should not be any slower than
> 
> ROTFL.
> 
> So use del *.*, it's amazingly efficient.
> 
> Users who put speed before accuracy and reliability get what
> they deserve.

Maybe, but there are an awful lot of them.  Why do you think I let my newsgroups
grow and grow until they get too big to expire... :-) 

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