expiring news by raising low water mark ...

[Russ Allbery]

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
>> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> wrote;

>> } I realize that this may be an odd request, but at the university I work
>> } at, the profs use the news server for 'course discussions' and want to
>> } periodically purge news pre-date X ... I'm figuring that the easiest way
>> } to do that would be to mark all articles in a group less then 'article #Y'
>> } as expired ...

>> } Is there any way I can do this? 

We've been doing this via just editing expire.ctl, waiting a day, and then
changing it back for longer than I've been working here.  It's a minor
pain, but it works, and it's easy to explain to new people.  We only have
to do it once a quarter.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>