🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct15.161856.20388@sarah.albany.edu> syslss@sarah.albany.edu (Leslie S Steckel) writes:
>... Now doexpire 
>complains that these newsgroups are not covered in the "control file", 
>which would appears to be expire file, explist.  We have been able to force 
>expire to run by adding these hierarchies back to explist, but this is clearly 
>not the right way to proceed...

The right way to proceed is to have a catch-all entry, such as

	all	x	7	-

at the end of explist, so *any* group not otherwise explicitly mentioned
is nevertheless dealt with properly.

The defunct groups are not gone from your system, for expiry purposes,
until the last history-file entry mentioning them is gone.  That can take
a while.  Deleting the files doesn't delete their history lines.
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