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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Mythical Megabyte-Day (Re: Abuse of Expires:)
Message-ID: <317@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 01:44:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: brandx.317
Posted: Fri Aug  7 01:44:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 15:46:45 EDT
References: <499@wolf.UUCP> <316@brandx.rutgers.edu> <5092@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: stranger and stranger
To: rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, webber@aramis.rutgers.edu


In article <5092@j.cc.purdue.edu>, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu (Whitewater Wombat) writes:
> 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

When earlier this summer I indicated a willingness to post into moderated
news groups, I was assured by a large number of people that the news streams
controlled by moderators were sacred trusts and that eternal damnation
awaited anyone who tampered with them.  His usage of the Expire facility
was completely in line with all policy on same that we have heard in this
group.  Your description of your position in the above quote seems to boil
down to you justifying your tampering with a moderated news stream purely
on the basis of ``might makes right.''  Is this the full extent of your
position or is there something I am missing?

----- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)

p.s., Would you be interested in giving Chuq Von Rospach an account on your
mamam, a8