#35 manual expire

[Anonymous]

Sometimes news servers are way to optimistic about the
articles they hold. For instance my news provider
reports articles dated 2 weeks back but it can deliver
only articles dated four days back. This results in a
huge number of articles that need to be cached.
Searching for articles matching a regex takes about 15
minutes and eats 200M.

I would very much appreciate add a switch like
'--expire <data>' that removes all articles older than
the given date from the cache.

best regards,
Bernhard

[Matthew Mueller]

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You might find the fullxover=2 option helpful for this case.

If not, the problem with that is that while adding a manual
expire is easy enough, you also would need to add a way to
remember what had been manually expired so that they would
not just be readded on the next header update. That is a
bit harder than it may seem at first, since there is only a
loose corrospondance between article numbering and the
article date, and there isn't a way to request only headers
newer than a certain date, you can only request headers
newer than a certain number...