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- From: murphyn@rtsg.mot.com (Neal P. Murphy)
- Subject: Re: mail expiration program
- Message-ID: <murphyn.712017538@galena15>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Jul23.203951.13691@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Jul24.040748.17578@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:38:58 GMT
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- spencer@rise.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
-
- >It seems to me that any policy of automatically deleting data belonging
- >to a user is ethically unsound... especially e-mail.
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- Then instead of deleting the mail, use compress(1), or pack(1), or arc(1)
- to make it take up less space, and send email to the owner that some of his
- mail has been compressed to conserve disk usage.
-
- NPN
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