Henry Jones wrote:
Mike Easter wrote:

In the process of trying to find Pan's 'departure' from sending a
Date: header in earlier v./s, I've run across some docs that I
hadn't seenbefore.

For privacy reasons, email is problematic as I don't know how to
register for a mainstream email nowadays without giving them my phone
number.

I don't give gmail a phone#; altho' gmail strongly prefers a cell# so
that they can resolve lost passwords automatically by texting the cell.
I simply give gmail an alternate email, decline the cell#.

So I stay away from gmane,

Like many many many other 'things', gmane posting requires an
operational email address. However, gmane's TMDA system for obfuscating
email addresses of posters is sufficiently protective of any email
address which is used.

PS: Don't you think pan deserves its own "real" newsgroup?

news.software.readers is the best place for Pan-related stuff; and not
crossposted to linux and windows.

In some ways, Pan's decision to drop sending the Date header is an
advantage.

- it solves the glitches in the Date header which were described in
the earlier versions
- it satisfies some people who don't like their privacy infringed a
tiny bit by the Date header disclosing their tz offset
- not sending is 'harmless' because of the uniform policy of news
servers to provide a Date header if it is missing


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Mike Easter