Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So our amateurish guy implements this by configuring that all bona-fide
> Usenet groups are to be relayed/injected as the case may be, but
> carefully omits the local.* groups from his list. And for months and
> months that works fine, so the guy believe he is configured just fine.

> Then, one day, someone elsewhere on the local network writes an article
> crossposted to local.misc and comp.misc - well you can see what happens
> then, and two versions of the article running around Usenet is one
> possible outcome.

So he still knows he's reinjecting (or not) and therefore his software
still handles Injection-Date properly unless his software has been broken
all along for comp.* as well.

I'm still not seeing your point.  He still always knows when he's
reinjecting and therefore has an opportunity to do the right thing by the
protocol.  I'm not arguing that things never leak; I know that they do.
Only that anyone who is doing reinjection *knows* they're doing
reinjection, even if they're confused over which articles they're
reinjecting.

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