[Pan-users] Re: Filter for old articles in group

[Duncan]

Dag Ringdal <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 09 Nov 2008
20:53:27 +0100:

> I'm looking for an easy way to filter away old articles i an updated
> newsgroup. I haven't found this option in the newsreader, maybe I
> haven't looked closely enough?

Expire?  That's set per server, for some reason I haven't quite figured 
out yet, particularly since that leaves it ambiguous if you follow the 
same group on two servers that both have it, but are set to different 
expires.  (FWIW, it seems to take the lower of the two, at least for 
messages that show up on both.)

So it's set in the news server config dialogs.

Note also that if you edit the servers.xml file directly, you have far 
more flexibility in the expire time, since you can set an arbitrary 
number of days.  The pan GUI only has a few choices.

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