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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <45B4FDD6.9070608@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>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.

The late injection may or may not be for reasons beyond your control. But
the advantage of having Date tied to the moment of authorship (as clearly
set out in RFC 2822) means that if some reader thinks "what is this guy
talking about - where has he been these last 3 days" he can then look at
the Date header and realise "Ah! he wrote it before all the momentous
events of the last 3 days happened".

>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 the
>date 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.

No, the moment when you pressed 'send' is the moment when you considered
your article complete (see RFC 2822 again). It is not the moment of
injection.

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