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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <2164@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 03:33:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2164
Posted: Wed Jul 29 03:33:44 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 01:47:22 EDT
References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <2821@phri.UUCP> <1371@epimass.EPI.COM> <4040@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4040@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
> >>To expound on how rec.mag.otherrealms is different/better/whatever than the
> >>other groups, and thus deserves a longer expiry is pretty arogant....
> 
...
> Anyway, the level of Chuq's arrogance is not the issue here; it is whether the
> nature of rec.mag.otherrealms warrants long expiration dates.

Look, I like otherrealms, and think it's worth keeping around.  To accomodate
this I put a few characters in my expire script that say !mod.mag.otherrealms.
To force expiration despite explict expiration dates without screwing up the
rest of the groups I like to keep around, I'd have to run a separate expire
run or do some off the wall diddling.

It is arrogant to assume that some particular material is "so good" that it
should override the recipient's decisions about news expirations.  Why do so?
What would you think if the magzaines you recieve in the mail said "warning:
do not discard before ...."?

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