Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!nbires!hao!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-lcc!pyramid!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms Message-ID: <1377@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 23:45:23 EDT Article-I.D.: epimass.1377 Posted: Wed Jul 29 23:45:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 11:25:47 EDT References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <6957@g.ms.uky.edu> <3646@well.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 21 In article <3646@well.UUCP> booter@well.UUCP (Elaine Richards) writes: >Think of this, friends. Our tax dollars pay for a lot of UNIX sites. >My tax dollars are currently padding Chuq's ego. John's phone bill >and disk storage costs are higher due to this behavior. John's phone bill is exactly the same, except for the tiny number of extra bytes for the Expires: header. The articles are sent to him only once. His disk costs are exactly the same, because if he has room to store the otherrealms issue when it first arrives, he has room to store it until the next issue arrives. The Expires: line is designed to keep one and only one issue around at a time. Chuq's behavior isn't costing John (or my company) a dime. We've already generated a year's worth of otherrealms traffic just arguing about the damned thing. It is John's anger at Chuq's behavior that's costing him (and us) money. -- - Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com {seismo,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@seismo.css.gov