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From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Improper use of Expires:
Message-ID: <173@almsa-1>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:03:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:03:37 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 04:50:15 EDT
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Reply-To: control@almsa-1.ARPA (William Martin)
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I believe that this "overuse of 'Expires:' problem" can be traced to the
inclusion of the "Expires:" header field in the posting-template that
shows up inside "rn". "Postnews" doesn't prompt for "Expires:", nor many
of the other header elements, and therefore only those who know enough
to add them correctly can ever use those header fields. Their inclusion
in the "rn" template encourages their use. Maybe the next version of
"rn" can prune all this excess stuff out of the template, so it will not
be used to excess, and also so those of us who are familiar with it
don't have to waste time deleting all those fields with every posting.

Will Martin