On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:29:42 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Randall Bart
<Barticus@att.spam.net> wrote:
>
> 'Twas Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:13:22 GMT when all alt.privacy.spyware stood in
> awe as shplink <shplink@removeme.shplink.com> uttered:
>
> >Message-ID: <b02ed7a0b0371d70b5d137ecc7f3f975@news.teranews.co m>
>
> I am confused. This message showed up today with today's date and the
> Message-ID above.
[snip]

I suspect your news server, or possibly one of its feeds, "burped", and for
whatever reason re-dated incoming messages to the date/time they were
received _at_that_server_.

> Yet I have messages from Sept 3 which are replies to
> this message and show the same Message-ID in their reference headers.

Are you *very* sure of that? Google has been known to do some "spontaneous
redating" itself; but you are apparently not reading Usenet via Google (good
thing, that). I can't think of any other way for a follow-up to pre-date
the original article.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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