Russ Allbery wrote:
Forrest J Cavalier <mibsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:Here's a thought....USEFOR should have defined "Authoring-Date:", or some such thing, not "Injection-Date:" This would be completely backwards compatible, and put the work to resolve it on reading agents.Yeah, that was my fourth proposal. It's possible to argue that it doesn't require any change to USEFOR.
I didn't understand that as your fourth proposal. I am saying that we don't modify servers at all. UA can generate and look at Authoring-Date, and servers look at Date, just as they do now. I still want to see statistics about how often this late posting business happens. People shouldn't be posting stale articles to active discussions.Most discussions would have moved on between when they authored and when they injected days later. It is rude to think everything you write is timeless.
And if you read all the intervening messages before you late posted, just to ensure that what you wrote days ago is still applicable, why should thedate header be a record of when you typed it, and not when you affirm the message to contain what you want to send? It's splitting hairs.