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Proposal: expiry days display

#1114
From: Bill Lyons
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:00
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I would like to suggest an item for the 'wish list' for the next update of 
Snews.

This is that the expiry days for each newsgroup be displayed on the Select 
Newsgroups screen.

This would be particularly helpful

(a)  as a warning before running Expire, and

(b)  when using SnzPrune.

In the latter case, I set expire to -1 for newsgroups (such as the two to 
which I am posting now) as there are items I wish to retain indefinitely.
I therefore Prune rather than Expire these ngs.  

This is also useful with ngs such as news.groups, where if you are watching 
progress of an RFD, you may wish to set expire to say 60 days, and also 
hand-Prune.  

With others where the Expiry Days are set to 3, 7 or whatever, subject to 
(a) above, I let Expire do its work.

-- 
Bill Lyons - Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk
             or w.lyons@ieee.org
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From: Bill Lyons <Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Proposal: expiry days display
Date: 1996/04/01
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