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Re: Wacky suggestion: expiration dates on mailing lists

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David K Krikorian)
Thu Oct 22 08:49:27 1998

To: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>
Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
From: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 1998 08:49:03 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Jeremy H. Brown"'s message of Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:49:43 -0400 (EDT)

> 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?

As with the user accounts, we'd deactivate the lists, let the annual
AFS Janitor run (athena.mit.edu cell ACL cleaning) purge them from
directory ACLs, then GC them sometime after that.  (Yes, the Janitor
does grovel through the whole cell.)

-- 
David Krikorian <dkk@mit.edu>,  radio: KA1NAP,  groups: APO LSC SIPB Grey17,


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