Ahao.127 NET.news utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!hao!pag Fri Jul 10 18:12:03 1981 Article Cancellation (reprise) I was informed that this message disappeared into a net 'abyss' after one site and never got any farther .... so once again: Most netnews administrators must all share the frustration of the /usr/spool/news directory getting too large to be manageable, of being unable to access all the news due to "netnews: too many articles". Hopefully the new netnews will have expiration dates on articles. But until it is available, the only way to cut back on the weed-like growth of articles is to cancel them one at a time, a tedious task. I have written a program "newspurge" which automatically cancels articles older than a given date (default 20 days), which can be run by cron. If anyone would like a copy, let me know. Peter Gross ucbvax!menlo70!hao!pag ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.