Best way to *really* delete a newsgroup?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jan 26 06:17:13 UTC 2003


Christopher P Lindsey <isc.org at spamfodder.com> writes:

> Now I essentially have a bunch of orphaned articles, history, and
> overview entries without a corresponding newsgroup.  But it sounds like
> writing a quick script to do remove the articles, history entries, and
> rebuild the overview database will fix my problem?

If the articles don't exist, expireover should remove the overview entries
and expire should remove the history entries.  They do stats to make sure
the articles still exist.

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