RE: FLASH: David Gary, others, and the issues of time

[Frederico]

On 7/30/1999 3:27 PM, Joe Shoults via

joescopfer [dot] com

, said:


>maybe the problem is in the chinwag server.  I have never changed my clock,

>but my posts sometimes don't show up until hours after I post, sometimes

>right away.

>-Joe


It's not the time they show up, I am painfully aware of some posts being 

distributed in mere minutes, others many hours or more (as much as six 

days I've seen), it is the actual time-stamp placed on messages by the 

sending client I am referring to. Chinwag shouldn't be touching them at 

all. If you need an example, go look at the bottom of your folder, and 

you'll find a few from 1995 and 1998 sent in the past few days. Chinwag 

has some delays, yes, but not *that* bad!


today, DG sent a piece of mail at least two hours ahead of his own time 

zone, and it just now faded down a couple of notches, until then, living 

at the top of a date-sorted folder until "time caught up with it". 

Several people do this as well,and I've even received mail (not on this 

list) from more than a year in the future. Pretty amazing.


It's just a bitch to present a functional, progressive, linear thread in 

an archive when dates are screwed up.


Frederico


~Following Apple's lead in producing compelling machines people want 

to buy, Microsoft's next major release of Win 2000 will now offer the

'Blue Screen of Death' in five tasty new colors.~

                       

                                     --[adapted from] David Puett


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