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From: kls@MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Karl L. Swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.admin.technical,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Expire strategy (Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.)
Date: 9 Apr 1996 11:43:01 -0400
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In article <m0u08NS-000019C@sapa.inka.de>, Olaf Titz <olaf@inka.de> wrote:
>Karl L. Swartz <kls@MAILBOX.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>> >Once the filesystem has been filled, the oldest articles are
>> >automatically overwritten as new messages are added to the spool.
>> Nice idea, but it doesn't address varying expiration times, not to mention
>> seasonally varying loads.

>It does address varying loads - exactly the amount of space that is needed
>gets freed. I really like that idea (s.b.)

That's nice, but I want to keep comp.unix for 21 days while chucking
comp.os.ms-windows after 2 days.  Your scheme doesn't appear to provide
any way of doing that, which is what I was talking about.

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