Marc,
have you checked what exactly Last-Modified is ?
megera@mira:~/app/php$ curl -I http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-01/msg00419.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:32:15 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3RC1
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3RC1
Last-Modified: 01/20/04 17:03:50
Content-Type: text/html
But message itself is posted
* From: Lamar Owen <lowen ( at ) pari ( dot ) edu>
* To: pgsql-hackers ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
* Subject: Old binary packages.
* Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:35:57 -0500
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oleg
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Based on comments from Oleg, I did a bunch of cleaning up of the archives
> (which is still in the process of being "re-mhonarced") ...
>
> First and foremost, a 'Last-Modified' date is now set, based on the
> timestamp of the file ... the script that generates the files is designed
> so that it doesn't go through and re-create old messages, so as long as I
> don't to rebuild the whole things 'yet again', the time stamps should stay
> pretty fixed ...
>
> Second, I added a bunch of code that is aimed at reducing the amount of
> information that gets indexed by search engines. For instance, the banner
> and search code at the top of *every* page isn't displayed, nor are the
> followup/references stuff at the bottom ... and only the date index is
> searched, not the thread ones ... basically, content is presented, not the
> miriad of links to that same content ... basically, for the msg* files,
> I've strip out *everything* except the message itself ...
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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