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Re: Intent to revive "expires" header from draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15

2008-07-29 20:45:49

Hector Santos wrote:

Michael Welzl wrote:

I don't understand that. I have seen wide agreement that we
don't want to specify behavior #1, so why do you call this
more realistic?

Because the practice of automatic purging already exist without any flags, and clearly without user permission. That is reality.

This proposal attempts to introduce a new header that would require a change and alteration ($$$) of this existing design and practice.

IMO, this is asking much more than what is realistically more possible, which is to simply state:

   Servers which employ automatic purging of old messages
   MAY let this field influence the purging process.

...and that's just insane. it gives filters license to degrade email reliability even more than they are already doing.

Keith

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