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Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   An alternative would be to have a separate `history' file for
> downloaded headers, but then there's probably too many files already
> eh. 

Since the .overview file shows the relative age of articles, I think
the expiry function should just delete all header lines that have
lower article numbers than the youngest of the expirable articles.

>   Just an idea, I'm in no way proffering this as the way to go, it's
> just that I've wasted some time on it :-). What's the deal with those
> .agentview files? I been pruning my .overviews, but these suckers seem 
> to keep on growing (I think...).

Oops.  I forgot about those as well.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen