Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!mthvax!wb8foz From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews and old news Message-ID: <1990Sep23.224445.18335@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 23 Sep 90 22:44:45 GMT References: <26675@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 18 In flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >>The trouble is that getdate() is relatively costly >How about adding a "Machine-Readable-Date:" header in Unix time or >network time? Would it be worth it even if only a few sites added >such a field? Could the original much_flamed Cnews message_ID be considered a "Machine-Readable-Date" so that it carried two pieces of data in one header? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335