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I have been thinking about a smart expiration utility for some time
now, but before I start to write the thing I'd like to know whether
there are already others who have done this.

Like everybody else I hate it when the disk space for the newsspool
sits there half-empty because not enough people type text around the
world. The obvious solution is to run expireiflow, and that helps
some. However, we have different expiration policies for different
newsgroups here, and I find some groups to be way more valuable then
others. Here's the scheme I propose:

The smartexpire script first looks at the dispspace, and decides
whether expiration is needed. If it is, it expires according to the
first rule in the expire-list. It then checks whether enough space is
freed up. If there is, smartexpire stops. Otherwise, it expires
according to the second line, checks again, etc.

This way, important stuff can be at the bottom of the expire-list, and
therefore stay on the system much longer, while crap can be deleted
way fast.

If somebody has alreay written something like this I'd like to know.
Otherwise I might give it a try, so comments are also welcomed.

Hans
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