Re: Extended Expiration?

On 2006-10-24, David Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
>How difficult would it be to add this as an option?
>ACTION_EXPIRE_DATED is already there, so could it be done in a way
>that if ACTION_ANCIENT_DATED and the associated variable for the
>time threshold are not both currently set, then it simply ignores
>the routine and automatically falls back to the standard settings?

I could certainly look into doing it that way.  Is there a benefit
to this way that I can't think of?

The way I was thinking of doing it is something like this in
Defaults.py:

	if not vars().has_key('ACTION_ANCIENT_DATED'):
	    ACTION_ANCIENT_DATED = %(ACTION_EXPIRE_DATED)s

I'd still have to add a decision point in the code and based on the
age of the address, either execute the EXPIRED or ANCIENT action.
Adding the decision point seems like a trivial amount of code.

Is there some advantage to the way you're suggesting that I don't see?