expiring news by raising low water mark ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001170907420.46499-100000 at thelab.hub.org>,
> 	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? 
> 
> How about '-p' option for expire or expireover?

Nope, that involves someone having to go in, edit expire.ctl to reduce the
expire time for those groups, expiring and then going back in and
resetting it to what its supposed to be :(

What I'm looking for is some way of being able to tell active to ignore
articles older then X by raising the lowwatermark in active, so that those
articles aren't even presented in the first place...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org