It is not a prank, and I am not sure why the message came thru as double spaced.
I use Outlook, 2007. William Unruh constantly complains that the long message lines transmitted by Outlook are not easily read in Linux-based email clients. So I edited the message to produce narrow lines by inserting carriage returns. Perhaps the result was the double spacing. However, that is the first time I have seen that result. Unruh, whose return address is [email protected], which does not accept email, complained anyway. To Hell with him. While my examples were not particularly realistic, my point was that I object to giving out detailed, highly technical, information to people who we cannot identify, particularly if it is security related. I used to work for a company that manufactures real time computer control systems for the electrical power generation industry. The current president of that company's successor is one of my PhD advisors. The only justification for a computer in a power Station is that it greatly increases safety. AFAIK, there has never been a major disaster in a power plant controlled by a real time computer system. Time is very important to electric power generating stations because of the equipment damage that can result from connecting a tie line to an electrical generator if the two are not in electrical synchronization, i.e., in phase with each other. Some electric power companies, such as Hurricane Electric, also serve up time via NTPD. Therefore, as a safety measure, I don't want to help people we cannot identify to understand the inner workings of NTPD, particularly its security features. Is it too much to ask that NTP questions list users give identifiable email return addresses so we can find out where they are located and who they represent? Charles Elliott > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul > Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Questions from people whose return address > is gmail, googlemail, Yahoo, etc. > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Charles Elliott > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some day, is it going to be important to ISIS to have accurate time > to > > coordinate a massive strike on the electric, railroad, or bridge > > infrastructure in some Western country? > > To [email protected], assuming this isn't a troll, no. > > However despite the previously expressed somewhat fringe views from > elliott.ch@verizon and elliott.ch@comcast the message at hand seems > odd. E.g. why is it the only message I've seen (admittedly a quick > look) that is double spaced and from [email protected]? > The concepts and proposals are so completely absurd that I suspect a > prank. > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
