Frank Ellermann wrote:
Keith Moore wrote:
behavior for mail-to-NetNews gateways should also be specified.
Transparent, "Expires:" can be kept as is (modulo magic SP in news)
my concern here is that (as best I recall) in NetNews, Expires
pretty much means the message will get deleted after that date.
Yes, that is what *expiration* does, depending on the server and
the group. But servers are in now way forced to honour Expires:.
Expires: is only a recommendation roughly matching your proposed
semantics. Quoting the MISSREF-blocked RFC (section 3.2.5):
The Expires header field specifies a date and time when the poster
deems the article to be no longer relevant and could usefully be
removed ("expired").
yeah, I know. but when widespread practice is to delete expired netnews
messages, there's a practical problem with gatewaying mail with an
expired header to netnews. (this is exacerbated by the lack of clean
separation between message format and transport protocol in netnews.)
not that I care a huge amount. AFAICS netnews is dead.
Keith