ietf-nntp Re: Date

Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu> Sat, 28 December 1996 18:42 UTC

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From: Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: ietf-nntp Re: Date
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The Date: header should remain the posting date - that is, the date
that the article was generated and inserted into the news system as
evaluated at the originating client/server.

If an arrival date is solely required for expiration reasons, there is
no reason to modify the article to store it - it is not supplied to
reading clients nor transport peers, so it is solely an implementation
issue.

If people wish to have a client be able to inquire when the article
arrived (was cancelled, will be expired, etc), these are site-specific
data that might be a subject for some sort of 'optional information'
command.
	- Brian