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

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Keith Moore <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> yes, it's advisory in theory.  but in practice Expires in netnews means
>> "delete the message on or before this date" for very close to 100% of
>> the servers out there - precisely because in netnews the assumption is
>> that all messages will expire after a relatively short time anyway.
> 
> The part after the dash doesn't imply the part before the dash, and I
> think you're underestimating the number of servers that ignore Expires or
> set minimum expiration times that disable its effect.

+1. Thanks for pointing it out.


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HLS