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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <488E0118.9010401@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hector Santos <winserver.support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>What is more realistic is the original intent of the I-D you 
>referenced in which you tried to revive the "Expires" header:

>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15

But that draft expired nine years ago. It need not influence us now.

>where it defines Expires as:

>    4. Expires:

>    Syntax: Expires-field = "Expires:" CFWS date-time [CFWS] CRLF

>    The Expires header indicates a date-time, at which this
>    message expires. The field can be used both to limit and to
>    extend the life of a message. User agents and servers which
>    employ automatic purging of old messages MAY let this field
>    influence the purging process. There is no requirement that a
>    user agent must suppress expired messages or make them
>    inaccessible to their owners.

Though that is not an unreasonable definition, and is fully compatible
with the Netnews version.

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