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In article <q63B435w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
>The expire software should examine the Expires: field for the postings in
>news.announce.newusers, *whether the system administrator asks it to or not*.

Where did you get the idea that it doesn't?  Both B News and C News expire, by
default, always respect the Expires: header, although C News expire lets the
sysadmin set bounds on it.  (We ship with a default 90-day bound in our sample
explist file.)

Like it or lump it, it is ultimately the sysadmin's decision whether he wants
to spend disk space on keeping articles on line for long periods of time, all
the more so because there is no restriction on who can put Expires: lines on
their articles or how silly those lines can be.
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