Wanted: smart expire scripts

[Eric S. Raymond]

In article <314 at alzabo.uucp>, brian at alzabo.UUCP (Brian Hilchie) writes:
> First off I would like to apologize if there is a more appropriate
> newsgroup for this request.  I don't yet have a full feed.

Next time, try news.software.b.

> - scan every user's .newsrc file and expire articles in newsgroups
>   that nobody subscribes to after one or two days

In TMN-netnews, you can set the `volatile' flag on a group to arrange that
any article seen by all subscribing users gets deleted by expire.
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