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Re: preventing articles from expiring

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From: Dennis Wicks
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 02:03
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In article <1992Oct2.181437.18855@schbbs.mot.com> mshah@next3.corp.mot.com writes:
>We have a news group that carries some standards which do not change
>frequently. They are set to expire in 365 days. Is there a way to 
>get around this and prevent this articles from expiring after the 
>set period of 365 days which is the max. allowable limit for the version of  
>news we are running. This way we will be  releived from the burden of 
>re-posting them.
>     Thanks in advance.
>
>-Manish Shah
> mshah@next3.corp.mot.com

Well, I am pretty new to *nix based systems, but why don't
you just let them expire and set up a cron job to repost the
articles from your archives once a year?

If this won't work, please let me know why.  It might save
me some time trying to do something similar later on!  :-)
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From: guru@halcyon.com (Dennis Wicks)
Subject: Re: preventing articles from expiring
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:03:29 GMT
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