From: Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: suggestion for expiry
Date: 28 Jul 1999 14:08:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uemhsj51p.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Max Froumentin's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:03:44 GMT"
Max> Max Froumentin <URL:mailto:masmef@maths.bath.ac.uk>
0> In <URL:news:ptvk8rlq65b.fsf@scratchy.maths.bath.ac.uk>, Max wrote:
Max> May I suggest that expiry be based on another date than the
Max> message's 'Date:' field? Rather, another field storing the
Max> date of the last time the message was read seems to me more
Max> appropriate. What do people think?
I'm not sure another field would be necessary for nnml or nnmh: they
could use the access-time from the filesystem (on Unix-like filesystems;
I don't know whether other OSes have a comparable concept).
<me-too>If it were implemented, I'd be happier.</me-too>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-28 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-28 13:02 Max Froumentin
1999-07-28 13:08 ` Toby Speight [this message]
1999-07-28 14:53 ` Max Froumentin
1999-07-28 15:27 ` Simon Josefsson
1999-07-28 18:09 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-29 11:50 ` Colin Marquardt
1999-07-28 16:21 ` Thomas Lofgren
1999-07-28 16:25 ` Sam Falkner
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