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Old 02-04-2002
With regard to the sidebar on MSWORD and the news article, here is my reply, as requested:

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It is not important what I think, what is important is what the people whom I communicate (and work with) think and use. I must communicate in formats that they use in their business operations. For most large companies, that means: MSWORD, ASCII, ASCII/HTML, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, PDF, FLASH. Most of these formats are vendor proprietary and they all are 'de facto' standards in the business world. I don't dictate to people how to commuicate, I accept and create communications in their format because the goal is to [I] communicate[I]. I don't think it is wise to allow personal bias to stand in the way of communications.
I'm not a supporter of (IT) religious wars and jihads either and don't find any userfulness in them. Bashing products and companies has little value. If two people want to communicate using the "foo" format, then that is their choice, freedom and right. Cooperation is based on mutual gain. Obviously applications like MSWORD, PPT, and XLS have a broad base of users who like to use them.... they do have a choice, many choices.
 
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snexpire,v0.3.8(8)					      System Manager's Manual						snexpire,v0.3.8(8)

NAME
snexpire - expire news under the sn system. SYNOPSIS
snexpire [-v] [-exp] newsgroup [[-exp] newsgroup]... DESCRIPTION
snexpire expires news in the sn news system, one article file (=10 articles, compile time default) at a time. snexpire always leaves behind at least one article file, so that newly entered articles will have numbers not overlapping previously used numbers. As an excep- tion if the expiration age is set to 0, then even this last file will be expired and subsequent article numbers will start from the begin- ning. You will need to be root or own /var/spool/sn to run snexpire. OPTIONS
-v Output a line for each article expired. The format of this line is the same as for snscan. ARGUMENTS
snexpire expires all newsgroups named on the command line. Each newsgroup may be preceded by -exp to control the expiration age. exp is of the form #[hdwmy] where # is a number, followed by one of the characters h,d,w,m,y representing hours, days, weeks, months and years. The default for -exp is a compile-time fixed. Each [-exp] applies to the next newsgroup only, any newsgroups after that one get default treatment unless overridden by another [-exp]. FILES MODIFIED
/var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.times, /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/[0123456789]*, /var/spool/sn/{.chain,.table}. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
SNROOT If this is set and is not empty, the value is used in place of /var/spool/sn, the default news spool directory. FILES
/var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.expire If this exists, its contents are taken to be exp if not overridden by -exp on the command line. N.B. Harold Tay snexpire,v0.3.8(8)