From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 17:50:03 CDT
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:45:45PM -0400, J.B. Moreno wrote:
> On 6/6/01 5:28 PM, Brad Templeton at <brad@templetons.com> wrote:
>
> > In the interests of history, I think it would be nice if the date header
> > [parameter -jbm] expressed a desire that the posting not be served from after
> > a given date until the death of the author, and that an additional flag be
> > required to suggest that the posting should also not be made available after
> > that death.
>
> That'll never fly -- our job with this particular header is to standardize
> existing practice and try to look out for the poster, not historians.
>
> If you want to do that, then try to get another parameter added in, "resume'
> or something like that -- something that explicitly asks for redistribution
> after a certain date/time.
Um, you've missed the whole point of the message. What matters, to historians,
is that by default they have access.