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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Dynamic "smart" expiration?
Message-ID: <1122@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 89 19:39:17 GMT
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In article <`QF52&@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>That is not the only problem.  Some people like to stay unsubscribed
>from groups but look in on them when they have some extra time.
>Additionally, there are those times when I see mention of an article
>in a group to which I am unsubscribed but it nevertheless interests
>me.  Both of these scenarios are affected by the proposed expiry method.
>

Although I can appreciate that, at some point an SA simply has to draw the
line and say "Not yet, sorry" when somebody wants a group.  As SA at utoday,
I recently pulled the plug on some high vol newsgroups due to disk space
considerations.  One person here complained, and I'll be reinstating that
group as soon as I get the disk space problem resolved.

Nobody said the job of SA was gonna be easy -- that's why we get the big
bucks!  :-)



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