Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Steady state news.
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.231124.24426@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <Faivp#r3@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 23:11:24 GMT

In article <Faivp#r3@cs.psu.edu> flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>This is an extreme form of space-based expiry and inherits all of its
>control problems.  Deciding which articles to expire may be difficult.
>Has anyone figured out how space-based expiry should work?

We thought about it a bit for C News, and concluded that the policy issues
are complicated (it's simple if you expire everything at the same time,
but the interactions with selective expiry get messy) and we didn't feel
like solving them.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
