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From: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu (Whitewater Wombat)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Mythical Megabyte-Day (Re: Abuse of Expires:)
Message-ID: <5092@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 14:18:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: j.5092
Posted: Thu Aug  6 14:18:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 14:27:32 EDT
References: <499@wolf.UUCP> <316@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Whitewater Wombat)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <499@wolf.UUCP>, billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
> A quick check just confirmed that the moderator of comp.binaries.amiga
> and comp.sources.amiga is stamping every article with a four week expiration.
> At the time of this writing, 119K of files are present in those two groups
> that would have been expired by now.

The moderator of these two groups is Craig Norborg, doc@j.cc.purdue.edu.
I'm his boss, and news administrator to boot.  I have (prior to reading
this article in fact) issued cancel messages for all the articles in those
groups that I could find which were over two weeks old, and have instructed
Craig to use the default expiration parameters only.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk
PUCC News Administrator