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

[Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:20:41 -0500, Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx> 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.)

Is it possible to replace the Date: header on all incoming emails with
the server time, to prevent this confusion?

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bd
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