FTP upload site (Was: Re: List behaviour)

[Jim Leonard]

Chris Elmquist wrote:
> On Tuesday (04/21/2009 at 06:02PM -0500), Jim Brain wrote:
>> Jules Richardson wrote:
>>> Jay West wrote:
>>>> I think it would be best for the list to just offer a "90 day  
>>>> automatic delete" ftp site
>>> Works for me.
>> FWIW, I think this a fine idea.
> 
> Would it be reasonable to have it be 90 days with no access?  Seems
> like lots of folks come along later, reading through the archives and
> then go looking for stuff which is likely to have then disappeared.
> This might allow more "interesting" stuff to persist while the cruft
> would be automatically expired.

Agreed; I have implemented this elsewhere by using the -atime option of 
the unix find command.
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