Definitions (Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Changing the subject line once in a while is a nice thing....

--On 3. august 2007 09:52 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     multiple injection: sending the same proto-article to multiple
>     injecting agents.
>
>     reinjection: taking a netnews article, converting it back into a
>     proto-article, and sending it to an injecting agent.
>
> By those definitions, he's not doing multiple injection because they're
> mutually exclusive.  (Well, unless his conversion process recovers exactly
> the same proto-article as he had originally, which one can do with care in
> a local news environment that's under one's complete control, but which is
> not horribly interesting in the general case.)

I would call reinjection a subset of multiple injection.

The article *purports* to be the same article (same Date:, same 
Message-ID), and the Netnews networks will treat it as if it was the same 
article. Any errors resulting in differences between the two articles are 
just that - errors.

           Harald