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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

  Lars> When an expirable article reaches a certain age, it is
  Lars> deleted.

>>>>> On 14 Jul 1996 16:38:41 -0400, Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> said:

  Joe> Is this "age" the amount of time since the message reached you
  Joe> or the amount of time since it was marked expirable?

For nnml, this is the modified-time of the underlying file.  (For nnmh
too, I guess.)  I don't know what time is being used for other
backends, though.  AFAIK this area is considered to be open for
improvement -- IMHO using the modified-time of the file is a
suboptimal solution.

kai
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