From: SiKing (siking@myrealbox.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 18:03:46 CDT
S L Painting wrote:
>
> In message < >
> SiKing < > wrote:
>
> > I was just looking for something in news.answers. There are a whoile bunch
> > of documents there (at least on my server) that have multiple versions of
> > the same thing. I was just wondering, why is the Supercedes header option
> > intead of required?
>
> I thought this was covered in the "howto" documents, but perhaps I was
> wrong. From my perspective (and in no particular order):
>
> 1. Some people mis-spell it. There is no "c" in "supersedes".
That one I knew, I just screwed up in my text above.
> 2. Not all news-readers support its generation (I know, I know,
> "get another news-reader"...)
I use NN, which support generation of nothing ... I do all the headers by
hand.
> 3. If a facility *can* be abused, it *will* be abused (e.g. H?pcr?me
> and others of that ilk). Accordingly some news servers may refuse
> to act on "supersedes" headers.
That's a shame ... what some people do I mean.
> 4. It's not part of RFC1036 (it was introduced in "Son of RFC1036")
> so there's no guarantee that news-servers will implement it.
>
> To summarise, it would be unusual to have a field marked as "required"
> when there was a significant possibility it would not be acted upon.
OK. I am guessing same goes for Expires, right? Oh well ...
Thanx, SiKing.
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