From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 19:44:33 CST
Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> wrote:
> Seth Breidbart wrote:
>
>> Earlier, you claimed that killfile usage is related to display. Show
>> how expiration differs from killfiling with respect to display.
>
> Killfiles are used by reader software to determine which articles
> (not) to display to the user. Expiration is a function of the
> server which removes articles from the store based on local
> policy w.r.t. article age and based on explicitly-specified
> expiration date. Killfiles *may* use Subject field and other
> field content; expiration does not use Subject field content.
Expiration is a matter of local policy, which can use whatever it damn
well pleases, just like killfiles.
Expiration policy can prevent an article from being displayed, just
like killfiles.
I don't recall anything in our documents limiting expiration policies
in any way whatsoever, including basing them on the Subject: header.
Or are you claiming that the *fact* that *existing software* happens
to do something should inform our draft? I thought that was the
position you were arguing against.
Seth