Re: Injection-Date and reinjection

["Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about standardizing reinjection ONLY for disjoint networks, letting
other uses of reinjection be out of scope?

Taking a shot at that.....


Normally, articles are transferred between news servers by relaying agents.  In 
the case of disjoint Netnews networks, such as a private server with no relaying 
peers, a posting agent SHOULD cause the identical proto-article with Message-Id 
header field to be transmitted to multiple injecting agents, one in each 
disjoint network.

When it cannot be avoided, a posting agent which converts existing articles back 
to proto-articles for reinjection to a disjoint network MUST NOT reinject 
articles already accepted on that network.  It MUST perform the same staleness 
tests of Injection-Date or Date header fields as would be performed by a 
relaying agent.  (This helps prevent reappearance of expired articles.) It MUST 
NOT alter header fields permitted in proto-articles, especially Message-ID. 
(This helps prevent loops.)  To make the article acceptable to an injecting 
agent, it SHOULD rename other header fields to preserve information, but MAY 
remove them.