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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.

I can think of several ways of attempting this sort of thing, patching the
expirer for one. However it strikes me that you are trying to use the wrong
tool. News is designed for bulk transfer of short term data. What you have is a
system where you want long term access to a small amount of data, presumably in
a small locality.

There are several approaches to longer term archiving. The simplest being anon
ftp, though this might not be what you want to do if you have security concerns.
Then there are WAIS, gopher and WWW. WAIS and gopher have their own newsgroups
(alt.gopher and alt.WAIS). World wide web has a telnet address which drops you
into a primitive line mode brower (telnet info.cern.ch, password web). I just
put up WWW here, took me about a day to get it up then a few more days providing
some simple support tools (before people ask they will be avaliable once they
are tested). This may be rather less time than working out how to fudge CNews or
whatever would take.


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Phill Hallam-Baker