Xref: utzoo news.admin:15123 news.software.b:8214 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: admins should expire news.announce.newusers at 90 days Message-ID: <1991Jun11.173229.21529@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 17:32:29 GMT References: <14957@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes: >The expire software should examine the Expires: field for the postings in >news.announce.newusers, *whether the system administrator asks it to or not*. Where did you get the idea that it doesn't? Both B News and C News expire, by default, always respect the Expires: header, although C News expire lets the sysadmin set bounds on it. (We ship with a default 90-day bound in our sample explist file.) Like it or lump it, it is ultimately the sysadmin's decision whether he wants to spend disk space on keeping articles on line for long periods of time, all the more so because there is no restriction on who can put Expires: lines on their articles or how silly those lines can be. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry