Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff

In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

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

>> CNEWS out of the box is configured to use UUCP, and its facilities for
>> using NNTP are somewhat rudimentary. But if you provide it with a script
>> that will call some NNTP server using the proper POST command, then it
>> will use it.

>Then that script is reinjection software.  So the person who wrote that
>script is doing reinjection, and is responsible for following the rules
>for doing so.  And that person *wrote* reinjection software, so certainly
>knows that he's doing reinjection.  (He may not, however, know that's what
>it's called, or that it's potentially dangerous.)

Yes, I suppose he is technically doing reinjection, since he injected it
into his own server, and his own server then reinjected when it sent it
on. But that is little more than hair splitting, since the article as thus
injected the first time is still a valid proto-article, and contains no
evidence of the event apart from an entry in the Path (and odd entries at
the RH end of the Path are commonly put there for all sorts of odd
reasons). That will, of course, change when once injected articles contain
Injection-Info and Injection-Date headers, etc, and if the man takes steps
to remove those then he is getting to more dangerous ground.

But that 'technical' reinjection was not the cause of the problem. The man
was totally convinced that he was not doing multi-injection (and so maybe
saw no reason to provide an Injection-Date). But, in fact he was
multi-injecting, in the one rare case that he had overlooked (and that is
typical of the way that "leaks" come about).

And I did not necessarily mean to imply that that he had written that
script himself - it could have been obtained from all sorts of sources.
And he would probably argue, also, that his whole setup - newsreader,
CNEWS and all - could legitimately be regarded as one large MUA, since he
intended it to appear that way to the world outside.

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