X-no-Archive:yes
It's easy enough to imagine a feed, a SuprTool extract file, a file that has
been ftped, or some other flat file in batch processing, that someone can
assert with confidence is used once and only once, or maybe even twice
(SuprTool extracts some data, some program crunches it for a report), and
then no more. If the file represents some sizable part of cached data, then
getting rid of it immediately, so as to reduce the chance that someone
already in the cache and definitely useful later does not age out of cache.

Of course, it's also easy enough to be wrong about these things, but no more
so than a lot of other popular batch processing mistakes, such as reports
that are WORN. Written Once, Read Never.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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