Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy 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) Lines: 16 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