[wplug] A question about the list.

[Luquilla Hughes]

As I look at my own time stamp it says I sent it at 1600 which couldn't be 
possible, unless of course the hotmail server is set for Greenwich 
time.(lightbulb)oops never mind...


>From: "Luquilla Hughes" <luquilla at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] A question about the list.
>Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:08:46 -0000
>
>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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