[news.software.b] Error messages emitted by expire

ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich) (07/27/87)

>Return-Path: netnews
>From: netnews (netnews login)
>To: usenet
>Subject: Missing files!
>Responding-System: psuvax1.UUCP
>
>System: psuvax1
>
>There was a problem with /usr/new/lib/news/history!!
>The problem has been taken care of.

This is in the "It sure would be nice if..." category.  Has anyone
thought about making expire emit more informative messages concerning
what it has done to repair inconsistencies found in the active ot
history files?  It is nice to know that expire has fixed a problem, but
it would also be nice to know what the problem was in the first place.

If time permits and it does not seem to difficult, I will post anything
that get done to provide this to the net.


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