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- From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Expire vs. Keep (was: Re: argh! leftover .D ...)
- Message-ID: <1D5BuB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:52:23 GMT
- References: <884auB6w165w@sizone.UUCP>
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
- Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, ON (613) 547-5066
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- spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep) writes:
-
- > I know, but how much do I want to keep? I dont want things flying
- > through here like alt.activism and can.politics with a keep of 100.
- > Thats barely a day in both groups. I want to see how often things pop up
- > in general perusals of output from UUXQT to see that can.politics comes
- > up alot.
-
- My gosh, man...you sound like you're a perfect candidate for using an
- expire program.
-
- > Another way, which is easier actually, is just to compare how high the
- > highest message number in the group is from the stats output. Since I've
- > only recently been getting news, I can do this. can.politics is
- > something around 1600 and alt.slack is around 40, for about three or
- > four weeks. Obviously I set can.politics to about 400 and alt.slack to
- > about 50 or 75.
-
- Using an expiry program, you would set things like 'tor.weather-report'
- to, say, 48 hours, comp.bbs.waffle to, say, 372 hours, and alt.sex to,
- say, 98000 hours. :-)
-
- Anyways, it works much better than the keep option -- just because an
- area has too much traffic your users won't be penalized for not logging
- in every 5 minutes and reading, as well, just because an area has 1
- message a month your users won't have to read the last 50 months worth of
- material.
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