Subject:
|
Re: Posts expiring?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 9 Jun 2026 04:33:17 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
30 times
|
| |
|
|
On 6/8/26 11:12 PM, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, "N. W. Perry" <nateomatic5@netscape.net> wrote:
> > I just noticed that articles n=1 and n=2 seem to have expired from each
> > newsgroup. Those are the Welcome/charter and Terms of Use posts, respectively.
>
> Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing.
>
> > Is this due to some intentional administrative action, or is there any concern
> > that additional messages might begin to expire? (The archive here is an
> > invaluable historical resource!)
>
> There's actually no expiry mechanism for LUGNET news articles. However, it's
> possible to cancel an article on a case-by-case basis using a script internally.
> The script simply renames the file in the directory to prefix it with an
> underscore charcter (e.g., "1234" becomes "_1234"), thus removing it from active
> view. This way, an accidentally canceled article can be un-canceled, and no
> news articles are ever actually permanently deleted. So that's the good news.
>
> I sure don't know how they went missing, but it *is* an error. News articles
> here are supposed to be permanent, and there's no good reason for these to be
> omitted from the record. (Changes to policy can and should be given as follow-
> ups to the originals, without deleting the originals.)
>
> --Todd
Thanks! Just happy to know it's unintentional and not a sign of anything
going away. Having this information still accessible is a wonderful
thing; takes me back to better days of the Internet. :-)
--
N. W. Perry
a/k/a "Plastikean"
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Posts expiring?
|
| (...) Wow! Thanks for noticing and pointing out that these have gone missing. (...) There's actually no expiry mechanism for LUGNET news articles. However, it's possible to cancel an article on a case-by-case basis using a script internally. The (...) (2 weeks ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
25 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
