At 11:50 AM 9/4/2004, you wrote:
it looks like he is, quite correctly, killing caches that had been disabled for extended periods of time.   What's surprising is the amount...  I've noticed at least 10-15 that I had found got killed today.

That probably makes sense.  I have always been frustrated by caches that have been disabled and stayed that way, unless there was a good reason, like a fire.