Resending articles for previously unwanted newsgroups

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Maarten Thibaut wrote:

> I guess I'll try and answer my own question: it's possible to remove the 
> unwanted groups from history (hisv6) like this, right?
> 
> ctlinnd throttle reason
> grep -v -- '-$' history > history.new && mv history.new history && makedbz -o
> ctlinnd go reason

The unwanted articles, you mean.

A more run-of-the-mill way to achieve this is to change the /remember/ 
line in expire.ctl to a very low number of days, and then wait that long, 
at which point INN will have done the pruning for you.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org