🚀 go-pugleaf

"Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com> writes:
>On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:18:53 +0100, Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote:
>> "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com> writes:
>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:36:29 +0100,  wrote:
>>>> "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com>, took a moment to utter:
>>>>> Binaries are 56 days, except multipart which is 5 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Text is 56 days and increasing to an estimated 2 years.
>>>>>
>>>> Just to divert to something on topic for a mo'..are those estimates going
>>>> to hold for text in binary Groups, ya think?
>>>> Most all I have run across dump the text with the binary posts, same
>>>> timeline.
>>>
>>> I would think so: I've noticed articles expiring at different times in
>>> the same group.
>>
>> Correct.  Our expiration times are not based on group name, but rather are
>> based on article type (text/binary/size/# of parts).  For example, a text
>> message posted to alt.binaries.x will last as long as a text message
>> posted to alt.test.
>>
>> The expiration times at http://www.rationalreview.com/news are accurate
>> and updated hourly.
>
>That appears to be mainly about Iraq bombings.  Doesn't look like a news 
>server site....

Holy cow!  I can't believe I did that...  (one of my morning reading
sites)  Try this:

  https://www.altopia.com/retention/retention.html

Chris Caputo
President, Altopia Corporation