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I did not "retransmit" old messages, they "got" retransmitted - softwares are 
not perfect and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug states "it is often 
considered impossible to write completely bug-free software of any real 
complexity". 

If my final device has not received a posting and if its not visible in the 
discussion forum, then the posting is not visible to me and I have no other way 
of knowing a message has been posted, so the post gets ignored though not by 
choice.

I use two methods of viewing latest activity on the FIXProtocol.org discussion 
forums :-

1) Receive email subscriptions

2)Visit http://fixprotocol.org/discuss/ to see latest postings. If a forum 
indicates a new post has been made with "Last updated DD MMM CCYY HH:MM XM" 
with the date time part in Red color, I open that forum to see latest activity. 
The problem here is topics with new replies do not "bubble up" like they do in 
many discussion forums, for example 
http://www.coderanch.com/forums/f-25/Developer-Certification-SCJD and other 
forums at the coderanch site. This was a feature request suggested in 
http://fixprotocol.org/discuss/read/ac424324 and 
http://fixprotocol.org/discuss/read/1eda1833

>From the message contents (not header) I want to be able to do a staleness 
>check because [Start quote from 
>http://www.ez2ba.com/html/help/guides/viewing-email-headers.html ] Many email 
>programs hide much of the header information because most of the time you 
>don't need it.[End quote] Posting date & time in email body is to help discard 
>old messages. As an example below is the "Full Headers" from a Yahoo email 
>that I received from Implementation and Optimization working group

[Start "Full headers" from Yahoo email]

FPL Implementation & Optimization Working Group
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:03 PM
>From FPL Meeting Tue Jul 21 11:03:08 2009
Return-Path:            <[email protected]>
Authentication-Results:                 mta503.mail.mud.yahoo.com 
from=fixprotocol.org; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:               from 198.104.138.17 (EHLO mail.angel.net) 
(198.104.138.17) by mta503.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 
11:03:10 -0700
Received:               from localhost.localdomain (va4.angel.net 
[216.167.119.55]) by mail.angel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604E461404A for 
<[email protected]>; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
Content-Type:           multipart/mixed; 
boundary="----------=_1248199388-11181-40"
Content-Transfer-Encoding:              binary
MIME-Version:           1.0
From:           
FPL Meeting <[email protected]>  
Add sender to Contacts
Subject:                FPL Implementation & Optimization Working Group
To:             [email protected]
Message-Id:             <[email protected]>
Date:           Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
Content-Length:                 12399
 Message contains attachments
                instance_7121.vcs (2KB)

[End "Full headers" from Yahoo email]

Note that there is no Sent time / date only a received date and time.

I am not talking of the date of the original posting in replies, I am only 
recommending including the date and time of current post in the email 
subscription - either a reply or creation of new thread. I agree interest is 
triggered by topic and not by posting date. 

I thought adding date and time in email body is an easy task which could help 
many people who are reading email subscriptions.

> This sounds like a very special case where you retransmit email messages
> to a forwarded location with one month delay. Does this mean that you
> would ignore postings that your final device has not received within a
> certain time frame?
> 
> The normal case would be that the email is sent to you within minutes
> from being posted. I think that is sufficient. The email-header contains
> the SendingTime, it is the envelope for the posting. The date of the
> original posting might be more interesting to see if someone responded
> to an older post. Still, my interest is triggered by the topic and not
> by the posting date.
> 

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