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Re: time/date stamp
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 18 Dec 1998 04:38:16 GMT
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mattdm@STOPSPAMMERSmattdm.org
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> Why? It strikes me as more useful to have the date/time stamp generated by the
> server, giving a consistent format, rather than the current rather jumbled
Well, the historical reason is that original time of post is reasonably
meaningful, whereas time a post arrived at any given server is fairly
arbitrary.
Anyway, this'll all (kinda) be solved when Todd implements user accounts.
That, or you can get a shell account somewhere and ssh to it from both home
and work and use a lovely text-based newsreader.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) YES! slrn rules. I've toyed with the idea of giving out user accounts on my Linux box here. Security is a major concern of mine, though, in addition to not knowing how use of this box on our network for goof-off purposes would be perceived, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I am both horribly unobservant and lazy. This first is indicated by the fact that I didn't notice that the time stamps are generated (apparantly) by the local time of the post. The later may be determined by the fact that I haven't dug into the back (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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