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NAME
       expire - delete old articles from the new spool.

SYNOPSIS
       expire

DESCRIPTION
       Expire goes through all the articles indexed in the history file and if
       they are older than the number of days specified in the first matching
       line of the expire configuration file it deletes all know links to it
       in the news spool.  For cross posted articles that have more than on
       link to them in the news spool the other links are worked out from the
       Xref header line in the article.

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/s-news/expire, /usr/local/etc/s-news/active,
       /usr/local/etc/s-news/history

SEE ALSO
       overview(8), makehistory(8), nntpd(8)

Version 0.1.8                     March 2001                         EXPIRE(8)