Newsgroups: news.admin Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: More duplicates from 19 October Message-ID: <1989Nov21.180645.3700@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Nov12.221000.13228@rpi.edu> <51035@oliveb.olivetti.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 18:06:45 GMT In article <51035@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes: >Isn't rnews supposed to trash articles that were posted before the >history expire limit? I suggest that sites keep their history longer, >expecially a non-leaf site such as "think". I use a value of 40 days. C News relaynews doesn't do the trash-prehistoric-articles business, partly because Geoff dislikes the idea of having to parse dates (on grounds of complexity, program size, and execution time), partly because there is a real problem with slow links that take a long time to get articles out to the world for the *first* time. Our current official opinion is that keeping more history around is a better solution. Unofficially and tentatively, we're starting to wonder about this policy, given the amount of trouble there's been lately. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu