From: Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@fuentez.com>
Subject: Re: How does expiry in mail groups work?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 14:59:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yyalok1cg6j.fsf@fuentez.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 12 Apr 1996 05:16:04 +0200
> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Lars> `nn*-request-update-mark' is called whenever an article mark
Lars> is set. If nndb wishes to use it to keep a database of when
Lars> articles are marked as expirable and use that date when
Lars> expiring, that's totally up to nndb.
nndb could add some commands to the NNTP::tng protocol to set and
retrieve modification times. That would be fairly trivial.
How about:
TOUCH <number> to set the date associated with an article to now.
STAT <number> to get the last date. In what format should the date
come back?
--
Joe Hildebrand Fuentez Systems Concepts
hildjj@fuentez.com Lead Software Engineer
"Breakfast recapitulates phylogeny" - Spider Robinson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-04-12 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-11 17:43 Kai Grossjohann
1996-04-11 18:42 ` Jack Vinson
1996-04-12 3:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-04-12 20:59 ` Joe Hildebrand [this message]
1996-04-15 7:11 ` Kai Grossjohann
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