Xref: utzoo news.admin:15357 news.software.b:8333 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: admins should expire news.announce.newusers at 90 days Message-ID: <1991Jun18.142926.479@sceard.Sceard.COM> Date: 18 Jun 91 14:29:26 GMT References: <1991Jun11.173229.21529@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Organization: The Mole and Badger Association of Northern San Diego County Lines: 16 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: [...] >I know. I'm suggesting that it shouldn't just be the default; expire should >be hard-wired to use the Expires: header for news.announce.newusers, so that >the system administrator has to put in some moderately hard work to get rid of >the introductory postings. The impression I get is that a lot of system >administrators switch off Expires: header processing globally, and give a >flat n-day expire to the news.* hierarchy. $ rm /usr/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/* $ echo "This is not hard work, not even moderately hard." $ echo "mathew, would you like to borrow a clue?" -- Mike Murphy mrm@Sceard.COM ucsd!sceard!mrm +1 619 598 5874