Re: #1416: USEPRO 3.9: Reinjection and Injection-Date

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <87fya42gin.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> The incompability of the 2822 Date and the s-o-1036 Date is obvious, is
>> that the reason why you invented the new Injection-Date here ?

>No.  (I thought you were here for the previous discussions?)  We invented
>Injection-Date to solve a specific problem with off-line posts.  Avoiding
>having to redefine an RFC 2822 header field was an additional advantage,
>but wasn't the initial motivation.

No, I think Frank is largely right. The wording in RFC 2822 was a
significant part of the thinking that led to Injection-Date (and, after
all, that RFC 2822 wording explicitly talks about off-line preparation of
emails).

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