🚀 go-pugleaf

Shakib Otaqui (Shakib@alquds.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Saturday, in article <830590991.2944.0@thokk.demon.co.uk>
>      Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" wrote:

> MM> walter briscoe (walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> MM> > In article <830462963snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
> MM> >            tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" writes:
> MM> 
> MM> > > This program would also skip gracefully any newsgroups it cannot expire,
> MM> > > without messing up indices.  It should also process the newsgroups in size
> MM> > > order (smallest first), to try to prevent disk full errors.  This wonder
> MM> > > utility should also cause porcine creatures to become airborne... ;)
> MM> 
> MM> The stats at the summary shoudl also remain accurate.

>     [snip]

>     I wonder how many people share my total lack of interest in these
>     stats and willingness to sacrifice them in favour of more speed?

Good question. The concern appears to be about running in tight disk
space ? I would have thought the stats of how much was removed and how
much remained were of interest in such circumstances ?

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