Expires: header

[Heiko Schlichting]

Hi Julien,

>> - Does nnrpd offer articles with Expires: date in the past to readers?
>
> Yes.
>
> Nothing prevents it in RFC 5536 or RFC 5537 as far as I know.
> Is it a *real* problem?

As we all know, Expires: is not used very often. But not honoring Expires:
header in nnrpd makes this header less useful. Example: Think about
announcing a downtime from 09:00 to 11:00 of some service in a newsgroup.
You could use Expires: so that this article will not presented to readers
after 11:00. (*)

I would not call it a *real* problem but Expires: could be much more
powerful if it was not only handled by expire/expireover.

Heiko

(*) Ok, downtimes always takes longer than expected especially if you
    announced it. This is just an example.

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