Re: [Admin] Re: HELP - unsubscribe
Re: [Admin] Re: HELP - unsubscribe
- Subject: Re: [Admin] Re: HELP - unsubscribe
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:33:45 -0500
On 10/14/04 7:16 AM, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> It's happened before, but this is the first time since the listserve
>> software was changed.
>
> Heh, nope I missed that fact. I just assumed that it couldn't be more
> than a day or so old. I never thought that a message could take a
> month to get through the listserver. Honestly, since the listserver
> preserves the datestamp from the original poster I probably would have
> just thought that the person had the date set wrong on their system.
> I've seen that happen before on this list. Didn't someone post from
> 1904 once because the battery was failing on their motherboard and
> their time kept getting re-set?
When you are talking about machines that aren't all talking to the same time
server on the same network, date & time stamps are vaguely trustworthy at
best. It's one reason why I tend to not take them seriously.
john
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Jeff La Grua
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