From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!egb Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: signing news articles Article-I.D.: whuxlb.272 Posted: Fri May 28 00:55:39 1982 Received: Sat May 29 02:01:53 1982 References: floyd.241 News groups and news articles should have the same control protocol. Hence, anything you can do to an article, you can do to a group. (I.e. make it permanent, give it a different expiration date). One other possibility is when the articles go to zero, the group dissappears (suggestion of rabbit!ark). Only problem is that people can have different expiration criteria on different machines. Hence, on one machine a group would expire while on another it wouldn't. Anyway, newsgroups should definitely expire!