Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>>> So he still knows he's reinjecting (or not) and therefore his software
>>> still handles Injection-Date properly unless his software has been
>>> broken all along for comp.* as well.

>> No, he thinks he is just relaying an article to comp.misc.

>Not if he's using POST he doesn't, and if he's not using POST, he's not
>reinjecting.

Yes, but even if the mail is sent to a site where your configuration causes
POST to be used, it is still pretty easy to inadvertently misconfigure
a sys file so that the effect happens. And it may be an awful long time
before the guy recognizes that he is misconfigured.

I should know, because I once had a sys file misconfigured in that way,
and it was some time before I noticed that I was sending out far more
material than I should.

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