Re: active file

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:38

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In article <1992Dec27.182536.18576@cpp.uucp> root@cpp.uucp (Rich Bauer) writes:
>In /usr/lib/news/active, how do configure the file so that a few
>groups are NEVER expired...

Uh, this has nothing to do with "active".  Are you thinking of "explist"?
(Your message-ID form suggests you're talking about C News, although that
is something you should have specified.)  Modern C News expires understand
"never" to mean infinity, with proper safeguards against overflow etc.
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