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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Expiration dates -- me too!
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 12:37:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 12:37:40 1987
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>[Enter sarcasm:
>By the way, I've decided that my postings are more important than
>yours, so I am putting a 3-month expiry date on them.  I am constantly
>getting requests for things that I posted and I have found a solution.
>While your words quietly slip off disks all over the world, mine will
>remain.  I only post a hundred K or so a month, so it will be no great
>load on the net.  *** I encourage anyone else who reads this to add
>their choice of Expires: line to each posting they create, too. ***
>Sources moderators, how about expiring your postings in 2 or 3 years,
>then we can get rid of the archives, which were always a bother to
>maintain, plus consider all the e-mail traffic they generate.
>Exit sarcasm, stage left.]
>
>Nothing like fighting anarchy with anarchy, especially when
>the net has just hashed it out and decided you have the right.

I would point out one significant difference between OtherRealms and John
Gilmore.  OtherRealms is in one newsgroup, carefully controlled.  Gilmore's
postings are in a number of different newsgroups.

So, if you want to do pre-delete Gilmore's Expire-lengthened articles,
you're going to have to go looking for them.  At least you know where mine
are -- in rec.mag.otherrealms, where they belong.

Since the vast majority of net folks and admins on the net disagreed
strongly with John, he's going to act like an immature child and try to
force people to do it his way anyway.  Contrary to what John is implying,
the net didn't approve Expires: lines.  They approved Expires: lines for
OtherRealms.  This isn't anarchy, this is terrorism.  I'm very disappointed
in the way he's reacting. I expected better.

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow -- John Pomfret (1667-1703)