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From: geoff@utstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: expiry date abuse (was: Expiration dates on OtherRealms)
Message-ID: <1987Jul30.174531.19993@utstat.uucp>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 17:45:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: utstat.1987Jul30.174531.19993
Posted: Thu Jul 30 17:45:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 05:40:58 EDT
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Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
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Summary: C expire gives news admins control

Abuse of expiry dates is nothing new.  One site used to (and may still)
send out all articles with an "Expires: 31-Dec-99" header.  To deal with
this sort of nonsense, C expire has for quite a while given news
administrators the option of ignoring Expires: dates, on a per-newsgroup
basis.  This isn't quite what one wants, so recently Henry began adding
the ability to specify minimum, maximum and default periods after which
to expire articles, on a per-newsgroup basis, which should solve the
problem.
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Geoff Collyer	utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoff