From: John Moreno (phenix@interpath.com)
Date: Sat Aug 08 1998 - 23:51:42 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> John Moreno
>
> >I would suggest that we reject cross-posted named articles. We might
> >want to come up with a syntax for a named hierarchy article - but a
> >particular article should really be one or the other, either group or
> >hierarchy and it's listed in all sub-groups.
>
> AFAIR recall, the checkpolicies document could apply to whole hierarchies.
> Does that mean we need Named articles at the hierarchy and sub-hierarchy
> level? And would that mean the article was autopmatically crossposted to
> every group below it in the (sub)hierarchy.
>
> I think I hope not.
I'm not sure what would be best for that - but as a machine readable,
signed and secured article, I think it can be a exception if we want it
to (one rule for humans, another for software).
> OTOH, I see nothing wrong with cross-posting. I would think that a Named
> article should have the named property in every group it was cross posted
> to. So if you want to cross post it somewhere else without having the
> named property, then you would have to post a 2nd copy. It sounds too
> complicated to have articles which are "named" in some groups but not in
> others.
Well, if you want it with and without the name property you'd have to
post two articles anyway (message-id), but you may be right about
cross-posting. I was thinking that'd it normally be so rare that
posting twice wouldn't be that big of a deal (but you want to expire
them more often), and might simplify some of the checking/setup.
> >I think that "six months" is too short - at least a year and preferably
> >two, and possibly even indefinitely (i.e. it sticks around until it's
> >canceled or superseded/replaced).
>
> No. That is just about the longest I would consider acceptable.
I was worried about it being appropriate (charter hasn't changed, faq is
still applicable [new ones have just been added]), and expired without
someone prepared to repost.
What do you think about the article being posted with "EXPIRED: "
prefixed to the subject? One problem is that the Date and Control
headers would have to be rewritten/removed.
-- John Moreno