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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: The anomolous handling of bad dates in cnews.
Message-ID: <1991May23.115029.10971@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 11:50:29 GMT
References: <1991May23.024533.9731@world.std.com> <1991May23.035202.31699@mp.cs.niu.edu> <b8bHel-b@cs.psu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <b8bHel-b@cs.psu.edu> flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>> If substituting the current date is a bad idea, what would you think
>>is a better idea?
>
>If a news site rewrites the Date field, it has suddenly created a
>different article.  Rewriting a header is not a trivial action!  Any
>change made to an article creates a different article.  Given the size
>of Usenet, this could happen thousands of times, creating thousands of
>different versions of the article.

 Give us a break.

 We are not discussing relaynews.  We are talking about inews and anne.jones,
which are used when the article is INITIALLY submitted.  This can not
possibly create thousands of versions of the article.  Until inews has
done its job, there are 0 versions of the article.  We are only discussing
whether, when inews has finished, there will still be 0 versions, or there will
be 1 version.


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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