Re: #1416 Injection-Date: current wording proposal (corrected)

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I don't see how this would be the case.  Either posting agents add
>> Injection-Date or they don't add Date and Message-ID and the injecting
>> agent does.

> Yes, but I am not expecting posting agents to be routinely adding
> Injection-Date (except in the special case where they are
> multi-injecting).

Agents that add Date and Message-ID should also add Injection-Date.  I'd
be happy to add wording to that effect.

> My view is that it is really the injecting agent's job, and that
> injecting agents are more likely to do it right than posting agents in
> the hands of unskilled users.

The current protocol lets posting agents add Date, which has the same
protocol role.  Having the posting agent add Injection-Date doesn't make
matters any worse than it is now.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>