Newsgroups: news.software.b
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The anomolous handling of bad dates in cnews.
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.221050.12830@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 22:10:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.223301.27280@world.std.com> <1991May16.211311.3544@eua.ericsson.se> <1991May23.024533.9731@world.std.com> <5791@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <5791@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>If inews is used when posting an article and it can't figure out the date,
>I can't think of a rational case for not using the current date. Note
>that I am referring to when an article is first posted, NOT when it is relayed.

That is a crucial distinction.  What if inews is being used for gatewaying?
(Not a good idea, but people *do* it.)  It is a terrible mistake to disregard
an incomprehensible date on an article that is not being posted for the first
time.
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