Index: ObsoleteFiles.inc
===================================================================
--- ObsoleteFiles.inc
+++ ObsoleteFiles.inc
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 #   xargs -n1 | sort | uniq -d;
 # done
 
+# 20210611: remove 330.news
+OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/330.news
+
 # 20210426: remove unused libexec/rc.d/addswap
 OLD_FILES+=etc/rc.d/addswap
 
Index: share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
===================================================================
--- share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
+++ share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 7, 2020
+.Dd June 3, 2021
 .Dt PERIODIC.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -396,12 +396,6 @@
 .Dq Li YES .
 The default is
 .Fl q .
-.It Va daily_news_expire_enable
-.Pq Vt bool
-Set to
-.Dq Li YES
-if you want to run
-.Pa /etc/news.expire .
 .It Va daily_status_disks_enable
 .Pq Vt bool
 Set to
Index: usr.sbin/periodic/etc/daily/330.news
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/periodic/etc/daily/330.news
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# $FreeBSD$
-#
-# Expire news articles
-# (This is present only for backwards compatibility, usually the news
-# system handles this on its own).
-
-# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
-#
-if [ -r /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ]
-then
-    . /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
-    source_periodic_confs
-fi
-
-case "$daily_news_expire_enable" in
-    [Yy][Ee][Ss])
-	if [ ! -f /etc/news.expire ]
-	then
-	    echo '$daily_news_expire_enable is set but /etc/news.expire' \
-		"doesn't exist"
-	    rc=2
-	else
-	    echo ""
-	    echo "Running news.expire:"
-
-	    /etc/news.expire && rc=0 || rc=3
-	fi;;
-
-    *)  rc=0;;
-esac
-
-exit $rc
Index: usr.sbin/periodic/etc/daily/Makefile
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/periodic/etc/daily/Makefile
+++ usr.sbin/periodic/etc/daily/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 	210.backup-aliases \
 	221.backup-gpart \
 	222.backup-gmirror \
-	330.news \
 	400.status-disks \
 	401.status-graid \
 	406.status-gmirror \
Index: usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.conf
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.conf
+++ usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.conf
@@ -104,9 +104,6 @@
 daily_accounting_flags=-q				# Flags to /usr/sbin/sa
 daily_accounting_save=3					# How many files to save
 
-# 330.news
-daily_news_expire_enable="YES"				# Run news.expire
-
 # 400.status-disks
 daily_status_disks_enable="YES"				# Check disk status
 daily_status_disks_df_flags="-l -h"			# df(1) flags for check