ietf-nntp Re: Date

[Brian Kantor]

The Date: header should remain the posting date - that is, the date
that the article was generated and inserted into the news system as
evaluated at the originating client/server.

If an arrival date is solely required for expiration reasons, there is
no reason to modify the article to store it - it is not supplied to
reading clients nor transport peers, so it is solely an implementation
issue.

If people wish to have a client be able to inquire when the article
arrived (was cancelled, will be expired, etc), these are site-specific
data that might be a subject for some sort of 'optional information'
command.
	- Brian