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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <2824@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 07:50:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2824
Posted: Tue Jul 28 07:50:34 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 05:42:16 EDT
References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <24226@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: Your disk is cheap but my modem isn't?

In article <24226@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) tries to
justify why he puts long Expire: headers on OtherRealms.  From what I can
tell, it comes down to the fact that doing so cuts down on requests for
retransmission, which costs in modem time and phone bills.  Besides, argues
Chuq, disk space is cheap.

Seems to me that if people want to get "reprints" of OR, they should pay
the phone bills themselves for a direct UUCP connection.  Maybe you could
set up a public limited-access uucp account with a archive server as so
many other people have done?  Or, if you want to be nice, you could pay the
phone bills yourself.  Then it becomes a matter of comparing your phone
bills to my disk space and the equation becomes kind of lopsided.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016