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

This week, we:

• got 10,298 messages from 262 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,100 sessions from 1,599 different IP addresses.
• received 373,200 connections from at least 118,510 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 14 connections being checked at once.

This is about the same volume as last week .We continue to have a lot of spam zombies hitting us, but this week they