Faustus von Goethe wrote:

> Doug, how do you know where he lives.  given some of the turns of 
> phrase he has used I'm guessing its overseas.

Simple.  E-mail is all timestamped as derivation from GMT, and so e-mail 
from *anywhere* comes into my inbox with adjusted local time displayed 
for its timestamp. Ergo, if I send a message at 7:00 p.m. from the east 
coast, all the listserv buffs in Calafornia will see my e-mail's time 
listed as 4:00 p.m., which is the real time when I sent it.   It doesn't 
matter WHERE he lives--if everything is working and set right, twenty 
four people in twenty four differnet timezones could send messages out 
and they wouldn't even notice.

Of course, since The LE's message was marked for 8:22 and YOUR message 
was marked for 10:33 p.m., it's likely that there's a time bug either on 
the mailman listserv or in my e-mail program.  ;)  Considering that The 
LE seems to be using Hotmail, it just seems all the more likely that 
either the OGF server is wacked again, or Mozilla (which I'm using) had 
a date bug in it.


DM

P.S. As a gripe, does anyone else think the list would make more sense 
if Ryan adjusted mailman to apply timestamps when it sends the letter 
out, rather than leaving them intact?  I know i've gotten a LOT of 
inconsistent mailings lately on this list.  :(  

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