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Subject: Re: Confused by several things in gnus.
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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>> Expiration on your Usenet server is controlled by the server
>> administrator.

Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:
> Is there a way to query the expiration policy?

Ask your server administrator for a copy of his "expire.ctl" file (or
its moral equivalent, in systems other than INN).

Expiration policies are not available via the NNTP protocol itself,
and the administrator is free to set policy on a per-group or per-
hierarchy basis.