Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms Message-ID: <573@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 07:29:45 EDT Article-I.D.: acer.573 Posted: Sun Aug 2 07:29:45 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:28:41 EDT References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <1692@stb.UUCP> Reply-To: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 24 Summary: I think Chuc is right, expiry dates are a Good Thing. I usually resist the temptation to enter discussions which already have lots of postings, but I feel strongly on this one. As news admin. here, I try to keep news around for as long as I can, within the limits of the disk space we can spare. When an expiry date is set for good reasons - as I believe the Otherrealms and conferences ones are - I consider this helpful, as I can set a reasonable expiry date without removing the few things that should stay on line longer. Recently the disks were re-arranged on this machine, with the result that now there is more space for news, but in the interim I had to reduce news space. It was no trouble to add the -i flag to over-ride the expiry dates. If a local news admin does not want to keep Otherrealms until November (that does seem a long time if you don't realise that the group really is a periodical magazine) it should be no trouble to add (e.g.) expire -e28 -i or even more specifically expire -e28 -i rec.mag.otherrealms to the expire scripts. P.S. Conflict of interests statement: I am an Otherrealms reader. -- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, U.K. dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW