Re: 5.1 Date (section_5.02.03)

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From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.swb.de)
Date: Sat Oct 02 1999 - 12:16:25 CDT


Charles Lindsey wrote:

> In order to prevent the reinjection of expired articles
> into the news stream, serving agents MUST refuse articles
> whose Date header predates the earliest articles of which
> they normally keep record.

That's backwards. Any site is free to accept whatever it
wants to. However, it MUST NOT _forward_ an article if it
cannot determine whether it has already done so before. How
about "MUST NOT forward more than once"? This would be in
line with RFC 2119.


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