From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 06:23:02 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Or, more likely, some broken server in Timbuctoo suddenly decides to relay
> it again (not even inject it, obeserve). For example, the server had been
> switched off for a week, and when it switched on again it started to
> process its backlog.
If, having once relayed an article, a server's "backlog" indicates that
it yet has to relay that same article, the server's software is indeed
broken. If that variety of brokenness is commonplace, then we should
address that issue somewhere (not in the article format). Otherwise,
we should not be driven by what broken software does, especially if that's
only some hypothetical, rather than real, scenario.