🚀 go-pugleaf

Previous thread in demon.ip.developers, this article x-posted to
d.i.s.pc in a disgusting bid for maximum publicity...

On Fri, 26 Apr 96 22:48:09 GMT, in article
     <830558889snz@wash.demon.co.uk> john@wash.demon.co.uk
     "John Washington" wrote:

JW> On Thursday, in article <830462963snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
JW>      tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" wrote:
..
JW> TW> This program would also skip gracefully any newsgroups it cannot expire,
JW> TW> without messing up indices.  It should also process the newsgroups in size
JW> TW> order (smallest first), to try to prevent disk full errors.  This wonder
JW> TW> utility should also cause porcine creatures to become airborne... ;)
JW> 
JW> Probably the programmer would misread the spec.  The pigs would be
JW> hurled skywards by a Roman catapult kind of contraption instead of
JW> being fitted with wings.  The Marketing Dept would nevertheless
JW> announce this as an exciting new feature and rerelease the current
JW> version as SnzPrune Lite...

TaDa!

The new version of SnzPrune checks for a reasonable safety margin
before pruning each group, and those which are too large are
retried at the end of the run, smallest first.

--
John Washington