From: SiKing (siking@myrealbox.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 09:47:54 CDT
S L Painting wrote:
>
> In message < >
> SiKing < > wrote:
>
> > S L Painting wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 ...
>
> Actually, no.
>
> "Expires" sets the *maximum* expiry time for a message; each news
> server will have its own default expiry time for the newsgroup(s) in
> question. The news server will typically use the smaller of the two
> values to decide when to expire the message.
>
> In other words, with "Expires" you can be reasonably sure the message
> won't be retained beyond the specified date. With "Supersedes" there
> is a significant risk the instruction won't be acted upon.
OK, so that is good. But the argument "it will make the acceptance policy
too complicated" still holds, right?
I don't know where I'm going with this. I was just browsing the
news.answers, there were over 1500 documents there at that moment, and just
as a guess I would say that several hundred of them were duplicates.
SiKing.
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