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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Our friend, the GMT date.
Message-ID: <585@logicon.arpa>
Date: 5 Dec 89 20:28:43 GMT
References: <1989Dec4.173315.22862@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <1989Dec4.173315.22862@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>We have religious objections to gratuitous header rewriting, and don't
>do it.  The current relaynews doesn't even notice the Date header, since
>it tries to notice as few headers as possible.

I guess it should be pointed out that the B news behavior is perfectly
compatible with the religious doctrine, "be liberal in what you
accept; be conservative in what you send."  In this context, rewriting
the Date: header is anything but gratuitous.  Aren't holy wars fun?

                           :: Jeff Makey

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