WGRCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Bill Rubin) (08/06/87)
In article <1987Jul30.174531.19993@utstat.uucp>, geoff@utstat.UUCP says: > >Abuse of expiry dates is nothing new. One site used to (and may still) >send out all articles with an "Expires: 31-Dec-99" header. To deal with >this sort of nonsense, C expire has for quite a while given news >administrators the option of ignoring Expires: dates, on a per-newsgroup >basis. >Geoff Collyer I have been seeing a bunch of articles with expiration dates of 31-dec-1969 of late. These have come from DECWRL, ENEEVAX, UCBVAX, ZEN, and others. Is there a bug somewhere, or is someone changing expiration dates they don't like (such as 1999) to this? I doubt it is the latter, since the adminstrator at DECWRL said he could not find the offending article - it had expired. We have made a mod to the VM version of Netnews that we run here to use the default expiration time if the value in Expires: is in the past, so at least now the articles stay around for me to examine. Does anyone have any ideas what is going on? I can supply article ids if desired. ------- Bill Rubin City University of New York 212/903-3676 WGRCU@CUNYVM.BITNET
dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (08/09/87)
Here's another abuse of expiration dates. Perhaps what we need is a
"stop list" of user and/or site names, such that expire will ignore
expiration dates on articles originating from such users/sites.
Meanwhile, I hope sas1@sphinx.UUCP will send out a cancellation message.
Path: bsu-cs!iuvax!inuxc!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!sas1
From: sas1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Stuart Schmukler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: WANTED: MicroEmacs binaries for microVMS 4.3 or compatible
Summary: Vote for posting.
Keywords: VMS, microEMACS, wanted, VAX, DEC
Message-ID: <1850@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 29 May 87 23:22:35 GMT
Expires: 31 Aug 87 05:00:00 GMT
References: <536@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: sas1@sphinx.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Xref: bsu-cs comp.emacs:690 comp.os.vms:1012
I am is the same situation, so if you need votes for posting I'll vote yes.
SaS
PS: The problem will be now to post the binary for VMS. VMS is picky about
file structure.
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Rahul Dhesi UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi