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On 01 Sep 1999 09:53:43 -0700, Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> said:

> However, I would not of course archive my entire set of mail lists.
> Mostly important groups like inbox, work, etc, which would reduce the
> size of the above as well.

> So, uh, got it written yet?

What I decided to do was crosspost all mail I wanted archived to a
group[1] that I don't expire.

It works well so far.

Drew


Footnotes: 
[1] (format-time-string "incoming.mail.%Y-%m")

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