🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, in article <830462963snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
     tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" wrote:

TW> In article <830215383snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
TW>            john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:
TW> 
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TW> > Also SnzPrune ought to be able to note Supersedes lines
TW> > and/or Expires.
TW> 
TW> Methinks that the logical step here would be to merge Expire and Snzprune

3 Hail Mary's, Tom.

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TW> This program would also skip gracefully any newsgroups it cannot expire,
TW> without messing up indices.  It should also process the newsgroups in size
TW> order (smallest first), to try to prevent disk full errors.  This wonder
TW> utility should also cause porcine creatures to become airborne... ;)

Probably the programmer would misread the spec.  The pigs would be
hurled skywards by a Roman catapult kind of contraption instead of
being fitted with wings.  The Marketing Dept would nevertheless
announce this as an exciting new feature and rerelease the current
version as SnzPrune Lite.  With a $99 upgrade to SnzPrune PigOut
available to registered users.

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TW> > Users who put speed before accuracy and reliability get what
TW> > they deserve.
TW> 
TW> Maybe, but there are an awful lot of them.

Give them what they want, rather than what they need?
Democracy is useless without education.

[rambles off to vote in local elections]

--
John Washington