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From: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sequence of header fields
Message-ID: <820@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Date: 30 Dec 89 15:11:57 GMT
References: <1452@ybbs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <431@texas.dk>
Reply-To: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Dallas
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In article <431@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>[Re: location of Approved: in header]
>Does that apply to control messages only, or is it the explanation why
>postings to comp.sys.sun ends up in junk here (Bnews 2.11.14)?

No.  I believe it's due to the inews staleness check.  If a message is
too old, inews will junk it to prevent old articles which have already
been expired from looping.  This is an issue in moderated groups, because
when you add up all the various delays, the "Date:" in the original mail
message can place it beyond this threshold.  That's why the "brkdig"
program I just posted to comp.sources.misc (which breaks up digests into
articles) checks the "Date:" field and strips it if too old.