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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
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Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 08:31:51 EDT
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Summary: Chuq's ego?

> My tax dollars are currently padding Chuq's ego.

What does Chuq's ego have to do with this?  While Chuq is the editor
for the OtherRealms magazine and he does have a column in it, he certainly
isn't the only person who writes for the magazine.

Perhaps Chuq (as a moderator) should have posted an article to news.admin
stating that he was going to use longer than normal expirations on his
OtherRealms postings.  News administrators could then make the decision
whether to expire rec.mag.otherrealms separately (depending on whether they
agreed with Chuq's reasoning).

However, I can understand why Chuq didn't see the need to do so.  100K or so
posted every three months isn't much compared to the 2-4 Meg of news we get
daily.

Now that the long expirartion dates on OtherRealms postings are known, there
should be no problems.  The news software is certainly flexible enough to
allow overriding the Expires: lines of rec.mag.otherrealms articles, without
expiring the maps, conference announcements, etc.