>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
-- David Meade Internet=dmeade@netcom.com Oakland, CA dmeade@slip.net