Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms Message-ID: <6957@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 17:05:17 EDT Article-I.D.: g.6957 Posted: Mon Jul 27 17:05:17 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 07:16:09 EDT References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 24 In article <2525@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >last month's OtherRealms (rec.mag.otherrealms) had a 1-month expiry >date, and that this month's 111K expires in November. I think this is an >abuse of Expires: and am not interested in keeping Chuq's "magazine" > [discussion of parlay back and forth between him and Chuq] That's why they have an "Expires:" line. Most articles need to be around about two weeks. Some need to be around more. Some need to be around less :-). I think Chuq's reasoning is valid. The newsgroup is extremely low volume. I doubt anyone is needlessly suffering for it. I believe the fact that no one else is complaining is an indication of this. John can: 1. Drop the newsgroup 2. Do a "find /usr/spool/news/mag/otherrealms -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;" 3. Put a lot of pressure on Chuq. If John's site is having trouble, I'd recommend 1 or 2. Sean -- -- Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, {uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!sean -- sean@ms.uky.csnet, sean@UKMA.BITNET -- We want... a shrubbery!