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Subject: Re: How does expiry in mail groups work?
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> "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?

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Joe Hildebrand                  Fuentez Systems Concepts
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