question about (this) maillist(s)

[Ronald Warsow]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 21:50 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ronald Warsow <rwarsow at gmx.de> said:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 19:01 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > It looks like the mailing list replaces the date header with its own.
> > > The variation in minutes is probably due to clock skew between your host
> > > and the mailing list server (since it says it sent the message before you say
> > > you did). The time zone is changed to GMT which is a fairly normal thing
> > > to do.
> > but it does it not always !!!
> 
> A quick guess based on your two recent messages: when the Date: header
> is in the future (relative to the mailing list server's clock), the
> Date: header is replaced with the server's current time.

not every time !

the difference between the last 2 or 3 last mails to the list *and* the
first one (starting the thread) are that the last are replies out of
evolution (aka the "normal subscription way")

sending emails from germany aka GMT+0200 to a server at GMT-0400 (~east
usa) will always care a date in the future (viewpoint from the server)

but why is the date from the start thread exchanged and the dates from
the last emails not.

*all* these emails are send from a "future" time GMT+0200 ! (server
viewpoint)

> 
> One of your messages took a slight bit longer to get to the list server
> than the other; by the time it got there, the Date: was valid.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

ronald