[1202] in Moira
Re: Wacky suggestion: expiration dates on mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy H. Brown)
Thu Oct 22 01:49:54 1998
From: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Cc: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199810212029.UAA15174@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> I think something like two months warning to the list owner, followed
> by one month, one week, and one day warnings to the list itself, would
> be more appropriate. Also, consider faculty who go away for months or
> years over the summer.
Hm. Perhaps the one-week warning could coincide with making the list
self-owned; that way, if the original owner had defaulted on it, any
single list member could then rescue it if they wanted? There may be
security/privacy implications there that aren't good, though. Hrm.
There's also the question of how this works with mailing lists that
are also AFS groups -- would you have to grovel all of AFS to make
sure it didn't have permissions on anything before you could GC the
list?
Jeremy
