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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <2103@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 06:16:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2103
Posted: Wed Jul 29 06:16:46 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 03:04:10 EDT
References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <24226@sun.uucp> <2824@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: expire -E -n reg.mag.otherrealms

In article <2824@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
|Seems to me that if people want to get "reprints" of OR, they should pay
|the phone bills themselves for a direct UUCP connection.  

This is fine if you are the system administrator. But if you were, you
wouldn't be asking because you would have archived it.

Most, if not all, of the requests come from people who don't manage
the UUCP connection - 	I would bet.

Perhaps Chuq did make a mistake when the Expires: of the last set
overlapped the new issue by 13 days. Perhaps he should have waited 13
days before posting the current issue. (1/2 :-)

Maybe I'm dense and am missing something. I would assume every site
has an expire script, detailing which articles to archive, and which to
expire. If you are tight for space, you change the script!

If you use agef, you can see EXACTLY which newsgroups are taking up
room. You then change your script to suit your needs.

If fact, the first step is to (probably) expire some of the talk.* groups -
overriding the default expiration date. 

This is exactly what you would do if otherrealms causes you the same problem.

Right?

I don't hear anyone complaining about news.announce.conferences, which
on my system has 45k of articles older than 45 days.

We have wasted more time and disk space discussing this `issue' than
issue 16 of otherrealms (91K) overlapping issue 17 (114K) for 13 days.
On July 23, the `problem' went away (assuming you expire daily).

I believe the `cure' is becoming more of a problem than the `disease'.

 
-- 
		Bruce G. Barnett 	
barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.UUCP, uunet!steinmetz!barnett