geoff@utstat.UUCP (07/31/87)
Abuse of expiry dates is nothing new. One site used to (and may still)
send out all articles with an "Expires: 31-Dec-99" header. To deal with
this sort of nonsense, C expire has for quite a while given news
administrators the option of ignoring Expires: dates, on a per-newsgroup
basis. This isn't quite what one wants, so recently Henry began adding
the ability to specify minimum, maximum and default periods after which
to expire articles, on a per-newsgroup basis, which should solve the
problem.
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