Expire now expires messages stored in the NNTP server format. the additions to expire.dat 'sort of' follow the conventions for nntp in other areas of nos, namely the delimiter for nntp groups is bang thus the format for expiring news items is !<newsgroup-name age for example !ampr.vk5 21 age still defaults to 21 days if not specified. automatic active and history file updates are done on each firing of the expiry process, only if at least one newsgroup was processed. all records are treated the same in the history file, and are expired when older than the largest number of days specified for any newsgroup. numbers of expiries in groups and history are both logged if > 0 if you have any ideas on the above dont keep them to yourself !! ;-) this code is not rigorously tested :-) vk5xxx march 1994
