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Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff




Charles Lindsey wrote:
+          <t>Whenever possible, multiple injection SHOULD be done by
+          offering the same proto-article to multiple injecting agents.
+          The posting agent MUST supply the Message-ID, Date, and
+          Injection-Date header fields, and the proto-article as offered

                                                       ^^^^^^^
                                                       articles

+          to each injecting agent MUST be identical.</t>


Intentionally not plural because they're identical and hence there is only
one proto-article.


But two "offerings".

Hmmm! It just seems an odd piece of English to say "a single-object ...
MUST be identical".

I think it should be reworded to avoid the clumsiness.

In the first it reads "SHOULD" be offering the same proto article.
The second sentence says "proto-article as offered MUST be identical."

So which is it?  SHOULD or MUST?

I personally, say MUST.  If you can't offer the same proto-article,
then you are reposting, not multi-injecting.