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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Should the Usenet/UUCP maps have extended expiration dates?
Message-ID: <1090@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 04:04:10 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1090
Posted: Fri Jan 31 04:04:10 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jan-86 04:52:35 EST
References: <2658@amdahl.UUCP> <3006@mnetor.UUCP>
Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: No, and what's more...


I don't think that extended expiration dates should be allowed at all.
I think that new versions of news should only act on Expires values that
are SHORTER than the time specified in the expire command or by default.
A posted article normally hogs space on thousands of systems for a
couple of weeks, and it seems to me that that's quite enough for a
poster to demand.

Mark Brader