News servers and messsage times [Re: Some tools for D]

[Bill Baxter]

Downs wrote:
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> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Downs wrote from an hour in the future:
>>> ...Here's a patch that introduces a vastly simplified map/reduce/filter
>>> syntax for small functions. Also allows you to use functions instead of
>>> delegates.
>>
>> Downs, man, come back from the future and hang out with the rest of us
>> here.  Or at least give us some stock market tips.
>>
>> --bb
> Sorry, my system clock was set to local time. It should be fixed now.
> Apropos, is it really a good idea for the news server to trust the
> client with the message time?
>  --downs

I'm not sure it's the server's fault.
Actually I just discovered thunderbird has a way to sort by "order 
received" which uses the message number rather than date.

Also the messages all have a header like:
    NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:01:01 +0000 (UTC)

in addition to the listed date.
So maybe it's more a newsreader issue.

--bb