--On 6. februar 2007 11:29 +0000 Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well that's what I had always assumed gateways (I think we are thinking mainly of mailing list expanders here) would do (read: I have never spotted one changing anything, though I have not looked that hard).Mailing list expanders are, in general, not mail-to-news gateways.Indeed, but I thought the purpose of your original question was to ascertain what current practice was with regard to altering the Date header in various mail systems, to see whether it offered any useful precedents for how we should proceed.
I was asking for the behaviour of mail-to-news gateways.Since it's been a fairly common occurrence to have "disconnected" mail from laptops being sent a few days after they were composed (certainly far more common than similar news postings), and nobody has identified any mail-to-news gateway that alters the Date: header, we can probably conclude that the issue of getting articles bounced because the Date: header is too old causes so little pain that nobody's bothered to do anything about it.
That is food for thought.
Harald