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

[Richard Clayton <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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In message <>, Harald Tveit
Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>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.

I rather suspect that when anyone complains the sysadmins roll their
eyes and ask what it is that is not understood about the word "news" ?

We have one "regular" poster in demon.ip.support.turnpike (the self-help
group for users of the Turnpike email/news client) who is often two to
three months behind in their reading and commenting [and who apparently
works offline and then posts everything in large batches]...  there is
considerable animosity about this behaviour (everyone else has moved on
to other topics, and the large number of posts suddenly appearing from
one person is an annoyance in itself...).

>That is food for thought.

I am quite sanguine about weeks old articles failing to be propagate
well, and so sensible newsservers give immediate feedback and fail to
accept them.  It is in my view a Good Thing that their original date of
writing is recorded and they are rejected on that basis. Hopefully,
before resubmission, the author will reconsider whether their article is
still necessary, or can still be posted without revision.

Don't forget as well, how batteries may fail and hence so many articles
were apparently written in the small hours of 1st January 1970 !

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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