Some IP addresses (probably not friendly ones) have recently taken tomaking POST submissions to various 'write comments' URLs here witha Content-Type of 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'.These get rejected by DWiki , because I was quite paranoid when I wrotethe POST handling code and so DWiki is quite conservative on what itwill accept.

While I was pretty certain that I wasn't losing anything by rejectingthese requests, I did get curious to

The simplistic reason is that only Atom feeds have a distinction betweenthe date an entry was published and the date it was most recentlyupdated. But as far as I know, even fairly deeply Atom aware syndicationfeed readers don't try to do anything much with the field; insteadthey look for changes in the entry's text.

One reason to not use it for much is that the Atom specification is fuzzy about when it getsupdated. The specification says that it is only the time of thelast significant

I really wish that the authors of mail transport agents would give mean actual language to program the behavior of their mailers. Well, notthe low-level behavior; what I want is a high-level language I canuse to cleanly write out the logic of what should happen to messages,the sequence of checks and actions and destinations that a particularmessage should go through.

I feel that our message flow logic is not particularly complicated, when written out directly . The problem is that as far as I can