Re: Invalid Expires lines in FAQs

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Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Wed, 24 Jan 96 17:36 MET


> If dexpire's default setup is that articles without "Expires:" lines,
> or which are never "Superseded:" by another article, are never
> expired, then that's an extremely broken aspect of dexpire's defaults.

Actually it is a deficiency of dexpire 2.1 itself - it either expires
by determined lifetime or by Expires lines, but not both at once in
one group. Yes, this is broken. I am just in the process of rewriting
the relevant parts of dexpire to overcome this problem. Mail me if
you're interested in testing a new version.

What I was trying to point out is that there are a certain number of
FAQs with broken Expires lines, which many maintainers aren't even
aware of. All of you take this as an incentive to check your postings
if the Date and Expires headers match...

(If you run C News, try out my alternate version of "inews" to be
found at the WWW address indicated below. This one does check for
Expires date syntax ;-)

olaf

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