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Wacky suggestion: expiration dates on mailing lists

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy H. Brown)
Tue Oct 20 23:54:46 1998

From: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 23:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: bug-moira@MIT.EDU


Random idea: It should be possible to put an expiration-date on
mailing lists.  That way, lists with obvious finite lifetimes (rush94)
could silently GC themselves (or maybe send one last "I'm about to
die" message to the list owner a day early, just in case...)

Just a thought...
Jeremy

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