Re: [leafnode-list] Groupexpire doesn't work

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Thomas Bader wrote:

> I've put this in the Configfile:

> 	groupexpire de.* = 100
> 	groupexpire ch.* = 100

> I only read newsgroups in the de.* & ch.*-hierachy.

> I don't read news for 3 days and I don't run fetchnews for 3 days. 4 days
> later I run fetchnews, and it has unsubscribed me from all groups. Why?

groupexpire only controls how quickly articles disappear from your disk - 
it doesn't affect downloads.  To change how long it takes for unread
groups to stop being downloaded you should use the timeout_short and
timeout_long options.

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