Re: Yarn 0.91 expire -r bug

David Meade (dmeade@slip.net)
Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:19:37 -0700

In article <52r1xs9YeHBI090yn@io.org>, trebla@io.org (Albert Y.C. Lai) wrote:
>In article <BnK1xwIeEHUG090yn@southwind.net>,
>ravenpub@southwind.net (Carl D. Cravens) wrote:

>IMHO, the "expire -r" habit is a very bad habit, carried over from the
>BBSing days of packet-oriented reading. If I were an author of a
>newsreader, I would tell you, "you want expire -r? Go back to your
>BBS. Here in Usenet, database-oriented reading is the way to go."

Interesting, I perceive the opposite, that "expire -o" is similar to
the BBS days of packet reading and "expire -r" is a more modern approach.

David

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