From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 05:35:57 CDT
In <c403a25462997927ef7bc21da78fcc1b@peteralf.sewer.output> Peter Alfredsen <peteralf@fabel.dk> writes:
>On Wed, 30 May 2001 16:05:03 -0500 (CDT), Kent Landfield
><kent@landfield.com> wrote:
>>You will have an automated means to be able honor it. I will add that
>>capability to rkive. Now that is not an issue, what real issues do you have
>>with it ?
>4. The fact that people actually will expect the Archive: no header to
> matter, when it will mean nothing in reality, as there will be no
> real breakage, should a server not be compliant with the Archive
> header.
But people actually DO expect just that. That is not a disadvantage of the
Archive header. It is the prime reason for having it.
>[1] Apparently John Stanley has a problem wit hme calling this an
> "expire" process, but that would probably be how it would be
> implemented (that Archive: no articles are put on a different expire
> time than other articles)
If you choose to use existing news software as a quick and easy means to
create an archive, then use of Expire is probably a neat way to implement
Archive: no.
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