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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: The anomolous handling of bad dates in cnews.
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.223301.27280@world.std.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:33:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.181041.6023@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center
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Neil Rickert:
> However, when a news article is received locally any sort of date gets the
>article into the local news stream.

No, inews and friends parse any existing Date: header contents and
rewrite them in RFC 1036 (as modified by RFC 1123) notation.  An
unparsable date will cause the article to be bounced.  (Dates need not be
in 1036 format, merely unambiguous and absolute.)

>(Basically inews does not use the '-o' option when calling relaynews).

A change that just missed the last patch and should be in the next one is
that inews will (finally) invoke newsspool or rnews instead of relaynews,
and thus relaynews will get invoked with -o on local postings.
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Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff