Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Expiration dates -- me too! Message-ID: <184@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 17:34:31 EDT Article-I.D.: xyzzy.184 Posted: Fri Aug 7 17:34:31 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 06:53:20 EDT References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <6957@g.ms.uky.edu> <3646@well.UUCP> <24948@sun.uucp> <2640@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: Data General, RTP NC. Lines: 27 > gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) > I find it odd that people are suggesting that every news admin on > every system should be editing their expire scripts and making multiple > passes over their news file system to "clean up" after a few people > who want "a little more" of your disk space than the rest of the net. Funny, I didn't hear anybody suggest that. If you want to ignore hints about expiration dates, use the -i switch. That way, you only have to make special-purpose arrangements when you wish to obey expire dates suggested in a newsgroup. For example, if you want to trust the moderator of rec.mag.otherrealms, you remove it from the normal expire and add a special purpose more lenient one. If you don't want to trust the moderator (or the posters if the group in question is not moderated), do nothing (unusual) at all. I've been doing this for a long time, and as the saying goes, "It works for me." In fact, this whole thing strikes me as massivly silly. There is nothing new at all about otherrealms' use of expiration date, and we have been ignoring it anyway (though we may decide to trust it in the future). And John's attempt to show how "dangerous" he can be with the expire line has no effect here, since it occurs in a group we haven't decided to trust. I mean, come *ON* folks, what's the big deal here? -- You're livin' in your own private Idaho. --- the B-52s -- Wayne Throop !mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw