expire setting

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, madog wrote:

> i want to keep posts for 30 days only, but don't know how to do that

You want expire.ctl -- assuming groupbaseexpiry (in inn.conf) is true,
which I'm guessing it is for your server, you want something like

  *:A:1:30:never

which will have most posts last for 30 days, but allow users to specify
(using the Expires: header when they post an article) a different length
of time.  If you want articles to last for 30 days even if the Expires:
header says something else, you want

  *:A:30:30:30

(the middle number is the generally-used one, the first and third numbers
specify the region in which Expires: is honored).


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org