On Sonntag, 13. Januar 2019 11:41:01 CET Goffi wrote: > Le samedi 12 janvier 2019, 20:50:25 CET Jonas Schäfer a écrit : > > […] > > The lack of clock synchronisation is a problem in any case, even when the > > timestamps are generated on the server side, since XMPP is federated. I’d > > even argue that it is *worse* when the server is solely responsible, > > because there is no way for a client to fix it. > > One node is on one server, so you have only one authority per node, the > order will be consistent within that node (you can't achieve that by > relying on X clients publishing X items). What I want to avoid, is what we > have with email, where spammer put dates in future to be always on top. > Note that this only influence the order, in XEP-0277 the creation and > update dates (what appears to end-user) are set by the client.
Thanks, I wasn’t seeing that spoofing a date could be abused this way, and that the displayed date is still under control of the publishing client. That’s fine by me, then. kind regards, Jonas
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