Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: expire group (moderated) not covered... error - cnews
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.071411.28570@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec19.045606.486@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 07:14:11 GMT

In article <1990Dec19.045606.486@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca> news@bjm.wimsey.bc.ca (News Login) writes:
>expire: group `alt.gourmand' (moderated) not covered by control file
>
>what does this mean?

From man/expire.8:

	The first line of the control file which applies to a given article is
	used to control its expiry.
	It is an error for no line to apply;
	the last line should be something like `all x 7 -'
	to ensure that at least one line is always applicable.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
