[Gilby]

Originally posted by fastforward
That is how it's supposed to work. Otherwise, they won't be threaded correctly when local posts are in the same thread as usenet posts.

I like the old way better, where the date of the post is the same as the date in the message on the newsgroup. Maybe some date checking would be appropriate such as making sure the date isn't in the future and that it's not older than a few hours or since the last time newnews was run, whichever is older.

Let's say that either the news server or your own server was down for a while. You don't want to have the messages that were not loaded earlier being the same date as all the others. Sometimes it takes a while for messages to make it to the a particular news server and they might come out of order too.