[leafnode-list] texpire failing to expire

[Robert Marshall]

[sorry Matthias meant to send this to the list!]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

> "Cory C. Albrecht" <cory+leafnode at fenris.cjb.net> writes:
> 
>> I know that I would prefer the simple method of switching off threading
>> in texpire.
> 
> Please let me know if the patch below (for 20040920a or 20040915a, may
> not apply to earlier versions) works for you to force article-based
> expiry. The new -a option (expire articles, not threads) removed another
> 20% or so of my articles so it does something %-)
> 

Works for me (finally gets alt.f.c under control!), thanks for sorting
this out - it looks a little scary though! :

alt.folklore.computers: 0 articles deleted, 0 kept, interesting
gnu.emacs.gnus: 0 articles deleted, 0 kept, interesting
usw _all_ with 0 kept
....
message.id: 0 articles deleted, 27760 kept

whew!
there was only the one output line on a grep "[0-9][0-9] kept"


Robert