Cleaning the spool?

Hello. I archive newsgroups with slrnpull. Periodically I would
like to make an archive package containing the spool. Because
I want avoid duplicates in the archive packages, I would like to
delete all articles from the spool. How to do it correctly?

What if I replace .minmax file "123 234" with "235 234"; would
that mean that the spool is empty and that next I want articles
starting from 235? The minmax "1 0" is used that way when group
is empty.

If the above would work, could the cleaning be done by
(1) Fixing .minmax files, (2) fixing minmaxes in data/active, and
(3) deleting .overview files, (4) deleting all articles?

Does expire work? My slrnpull.conf has expire set to 0 which
mean "no expiration". I want to keep it at 0 so that I don't
accidentally delete anything, but let me know if changing it
temporarily does work.

Juhana
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