XIMS: Preventing NNTP Expiration Policies from Applying to Sub-groups (198665)

SUMMARY

When you use Microsoft Commercial Internet System (MCIS) News version 2.0, you may want, in some instances, to set an expiration policy on an NNTP group that would be applicable only to some of the sub-groups, while other sub-groups would be excluded from this policy.

You can enforce the policy to skip specific sub-groups by using a NOT command. The NOT command is represented by an exclamation mark "!" (without the quotes).

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For example, you want to apply an expiration policy to the entire alt.* group so that all articles in most sub-groups automatically expire when they are one day old. However, you do not want this policy to apply to the sub-group alt.binaries.* since you need to keep these articles around for a week before they expire.

To accomplish this task, two separate expiration policies need to be applied as noted below:

Policy #1 will have the following two entries:

!alt.binaries.*
alt.*

Next, when prompted, the number of hours should be set to 24 (one day).

Policy #2, in turn, will have the following entry:

alt.binaries.*

The number of hours, when prompted, should be set to 168 (one week).