Re: Proposal: expiry days display

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00

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John Washington (john@wash.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Thursday, in article <828595499snz@pdlmail.demon.co.uk>
>      pete@pdlmail.demon.co.uk "Peter Disdale" wrote:

> PD> How about:
> PD> 
> PD>      alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality.hamster.duct-tape (-1)
> PD>      alt.bork (1)

> So obvious, now you point it out.  :-)

> Done.  I'm not sure what the default should be if a group's
> not in expire.dat and there's no [default] line.  0?  -1?.

As I recall, the [default] line is required in expire.dat. Of ourse
the whole of expire.dat is optional, so if we do follow this, the
diaplay needs to be enabled only if a valid expire.dat file exists !

> Needs an 'expiry_display' option in the .rc, perhaps.

It woudl be easy to configure.

> Any interest in this for the imminent 1.31, Malcolm?
> The code does take up some space, so all the usual
> pros & cons apply.

Quite so. I need to find some time to go through this...

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                               Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                    322 Regents Park Road
England                                       London N3 2QQ

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Subject: Re: Proposal: expiry days display
Date: 1996/04/04
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