[wplug] A question about the list.

[Luquilla Hughes]

Nope, I am reading this through hotmail. Fills me with a warm sorce of 
twisted Irony. (although I had heard at one point it was Freebsd running the 
servers. Maybe they have switched it over to NT/2k finally, that could be 
why it has been really slow the last week or two.)


>From: Rick Smith <rick at rbsmith.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] A question about the list.
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:44:56 -0500
>
>As far as mutt goes, and I believe true for others, there are ways
>to sort mail: sent, receieved, threaded, etc.
>
>Sorting by received puts things in an order that makes sense more
>often than sorting by sent.  Threaded does nicely, though not as
>convenient for seeing new mail.
>
>Sorting by sent leads to interesting results because it assumes people
>have their home machine set near some agreed up time.  Timezone are
>factored in.  If your mail reader doesn't, get a new mail reader or hack
>the code.  So it is not timestamps themselves, but it certainly can be
>related to their setting.  What I have seen over the past years is wplug
>mail from people's machines with timezone set wrong, like +5 instead of
>-5 for EST Or -5 during the summer when we are -4.  So their mail gets
>sorted (if sorting by sent) as hours before they really sent it.  (mega
>tangent deleted on the ramifications to this to distributed version
>control when people create things that happen in the future).
>
>So try sorting by received, and if you mailer doesn't sort by recieved,
>then hack the code, because you are using an open source mailer, right?   
>:)
>
>-- Rick
>
>==
>
>On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:38:12AM -0500, Smith, Edward wrote:
> > Something like that would be really helpful. I run a list that has 
>people in
> > the US, Great Britian and Austrailia. And everymorning all the messages 
>are
> > in a wierd order because of the time stamps.
> >
> > --
> > Edward C. Smith
> > CBT - Multimedia Developer
> > Interactive Media Corporation
> > esmith at interactive-media.com
> > (724) 284-7396
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jmh3 at linuxfreak.com [mailto:jmh3 at linuxfreak.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:13 AM
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: Re: [wplug] A question about the list.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bill Powell wrote:
> >
> > > At first that is what I thought, but in some cases the original note
> > > physically arrives minutes or hours later.
> > >
> > > The previous statement aside, I think some of the cases might be
> > > that the system clocks on the boxes that originate individual notes
> > > might be set to different time zones than those of the others, since
> > > I know many of the wplug list members no longer live in the
> > > Pittsburgh area.
> >
> > i think your right. if you look at the message headers they seem to
> > originate from the original senders machine (their mail server at 
>least).
> > is there anyway to get the list to restamp all of the messages?
> >
> > i've noticed this on discussion groups that are archived-most noteable
> > geocrawler.
> >
> > john
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