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

Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Keith Moore <[email protected]> writes:

> yes, and I agree that it makes a difference.  if a usenet message sender
> wants to delete a message that he has sent after a particular date, he
> can always issue a cancel for that message on that date.

He can, but such a message will do almost nothing, as in practice very few
servers honor cancels.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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