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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Expiration in mail groups & unwanted features
Date: 06 Nov 1995 14:32:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sd9b5zx4w.fsf@narfi.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Steven L. Baur"'s message of Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:26:55 -0800

"Steven L. Baur" <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> I'd also like to see an option to make groups unexpirable, so that
> even if articles happen to be marked for expiration, if the group is
> unexpirable the mark will be ignored (or signal an error when the mark
> is applied). 

Uhmn... no, I don't think so.  If people mark things as expirable,
then it's on their own heads.  In any case, if people have the wits to
explicitly mark groups as non-expirable, then they have the wits not
to mark articles as expirable unless they mean it.

-- 
Home is where the cat is.


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1995-11-01 17:26 Steven L. Baur
1995-11-06 13:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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