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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>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.

The evidence, such as it was, that I gathered in my experiment seemed to
indicate that Dates which were stale by up to 6-8 days seemed to propagate
pretty normally (but I was only able to monitor them at a few sites,
because auto-responders to the *.test groups seem to be very few and far
between these days). Stuff older than that did seem to get lost, however.

More of a problem was that some injecting agents (notably NIN) seem to
reject at around 4 days stale (I had to inject elsewhere for my
experiment).

>That is food for thought.

Well we agreed in USEFOR to go ahead with Injection-Date, so we should
continue with that. But it would be useful to have some response to my
reply to Russ's proposal, since I was basically in agreement with his
final scheme (modulo some minor quibbles, and the need for further
discussion of "Magic" exceptions).

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