From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat May 08 2004 - 11:50:34 CDT
Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
> Since a posting agent might not include a Message-ID field (which would
> be added by each injecting agent), the message-ids might well be
> different, and there would then be multiple copies of the article with
> different message-ids and injection dates. Multiple injection is not
> recognized by our draft (there is no provision for it). It should
> probably be at least strongly discouraged.
No.
Multiple injection is commonly used by the moderator when posting messages
to moderated groups. It's important for robustness and is fully supported
by the Usenet architecture. You simply have to (MUST) use the same
message ID for every post.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>