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Re: FS: 6950 (MIB) and 6951 (MISB) !
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:05:55 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Frank Filz writes:
> Markassius wrote:
> > This is a straight sale: the first person to send me an email, telling me
> > that she or he wants to buy this set or these sets, will get them. I will
> > check the time of the email.
>
> Just a little friendly comment on this (FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek), the
> only thing you really can use to distinguish who sent an e-mail first is
> to use the order in which you received them. It is trivial to alter the
> time sent (since it is set using the sender's clock, and if you telnet
> into an SMTP server, the field won't even get set by the system clock,
> it will get set to whatever you type in). If you dig around in
> lugnet.off-topic.test (I think - unfortunately, unsearchable [Todd - is
> l.o.t not even indexed, or could you set it so that if you are searching
> specifically in l.o.t a search will work?]), you will see a test of mine
> where I was having trouble posting and eventually telnetted into
> Lugnet's news server and manually submitted the post my news reader was
> having trouble sending, it had a backdated time from when it was
> written).
>
> Frank
Frank, of course you're right about this. It wouldn't be the first time a
reply to an email gets sent before the original email, if you only check the
email-time. (This happens usually around the switch from daylight-saving
time to normal time). What I was trying to say is that I look at the time of
arrival of the email.
Mark "The time of Paperclips is upon us" de Kock
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