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Re: preventing articles from expiring

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:46
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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...

I don't know what kind of weird system you are using -- certainly stock
C News, which is what your message ID would suggest, has no such limit --
but the fast answer is "you're going to have to fix the software".

If it's not a software limitation, just a question of overriding an
explicit expiry date, then C New's "retention period" feature -- see
the expire(8) manual page -- is exactly what you want.  (Amazing...
Somebody actually found a use for it... :-))
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: preventing articles from expiring
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:46:04 GMT
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