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From: vnend@engr.uky.edu (D. V. W. James)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <1478@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 13:45:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 13:45:04 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 06:33:47 EDT
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Reply-To: vnend@ukecc.UUCP (D. V. W. James)
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In article <2821@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	I agree with John! (*) Nuke the Expire: headers on OtherRealms.  To
>expound on how rec.mag.otherrealms is different/better/whatever than the
>other groups, and thus deserves a longer expiry is pretty arogant (in my
>opinion).
>Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy

	It may be 'arogant',  but that does not change the value of the 
arguements presented.  I am posting this from a small system,  but even 
here the cost of maintaining 111k of disk space is trivial.  Chuq has 
presented valid arguements for his use of the Expires: field.  OtherRealms
is posted to the net as a service,  an electronic version of a printed 
magazine that has attracted national attention for its reviews of SF and
Fantasy books.  It is argueable that Chuq has, in posting OR to the net,
lessened his paid subscriptions.  It is also true that he has reached 
far more people via the Net than he would have otherwise.  As his reasons 
for using the expires field seems valid, and in my personal case allows
me to be certain of seeing issues that I could easily miss with a two
week expiration, I agree with Chuq's use of the field.


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