Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: Proto-Prop

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 Jul 2004 at 21:20, Joel Uckelman wrote:

> Thus spake "Craig":
> > >events as they happen.  I would say the listserv acts
> > >as this, except it appears that if someone's system
> > >clock is sufficiently off it throws off the order of
> > >messages; there are quite a few instances in my
> > >archives of replies to messages coming before the
> > >messages themselves.
> > 
> > Are there such instances in the list archives? Because those would
> > seem to be the definitive ordering authority.
> 
> Even if MHonArc (the archiver) is fooled by someone having a skewed
> system clock, the time that a message is accepted by nomic.net will
> always provide an internally consistent ordering. I'd suggest using
> that. (That's what I did when I was the Admin.)

Well...if that's always true, I suggest autoevents generate 
autoemails to spoon-business, so that everything is logged.

						Glotmorf

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