Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site almsa-1 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!almsa-1!control 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 Article-I.D.: almsa-1.173 Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:03:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 04:50:15 EDT References: <2882@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: control@almsa-1.ARPA (William Martin) Distribution: net Organization: ALMSA-1, St. Louis, MO Lines: 11 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