[leafnode-list] group retention times

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Thu Apr 15 16:51:04 CEST 2004


On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote:

> Ideally, I'd like to make it so that for this group, only a few days
> worth of articles are fetched, since my expiry for this group is set
> to 1 day, so most of the downloaded articles would be binned by the
> first texpire run.

You can use a filterfile and set the maxage for that group.

Untested:

newsgroups = some\.group.*
maxage=3
action=kill

Note that this is not fool-proof, it relies on the Date: header.

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