From: Usenet News Support (support@deathstar.prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 10:43:16 CST
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <87fzduy3wp.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>
> >It's unfortunately going to be very difficult to change the effective
> >semantics of Date on Usenet since it's an integral part of the acceptance
> >algorithms of pretty much every news server out there. That being said,
> >the ideal would be to preserve the e-mail semantics of Date for
> >compatibility and introduce a new header, like Injection-Date, which is
> >used for the accept/reject algorithm that's dominated by history size.
> >This would also make gatewaying far easier, since one could preserve the
> >original Date header and just add the new Usenet-specific header.
>
> >I'm very skeptical of our ability to get there from here, though.
>
> Actually, I think it is relatively straightforward, and certainly not as
> complicated as Bill's scheme involving a succession of standrads track
> documents.
Given that a number of injectors now add the NNTP-Posting-Date header, it
would really be simple. My proposal was more complex to avoid some
objections I expect to see. Feel free to just require the header if the
date is out of whack (for whatever value of OOW you like).
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