expiring articles

[Russ Allbery]

Lisa Ungar <lungar at us.ibm.com> writes:

> Is it possible to specify using a combination of the storage.conf and
> the expire.ctl file to never expire the very first article inside a
> newsgroup?

I'm afraid not.

> Or can one specify an Expires: header to the article itself to prevent
> it from being removed?

Yes, that will work.  Make sure that your expire.ctl file allows long
expire times (putting "never" in the third field should do that), and then
set that article to expire some long time into the future.

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