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From: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expires: headers, and when they are appropriate
Message-ID: <1148@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 15:17:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 15:17:59 1987
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Summary: Do your own thing!

Why the big fight?  If a site wants to allow expiration to use the
Expires: headers, then fine.  If another site wants to ignore the Expires:
headers and use a fixed period of time for all postings, then that's fine
too.  The expire program can handle both, and can even mix-and-match the
two mechanisms for selected newsgroups (checkout -i and -I options.)  It's
all so versatile!

I won't dictate to Chuq or to anyone else what s/he should do with his/her
system because we each, the responsible news-administrators that we are,
can do what our individual sites need or want.

-- Steve Alter
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