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Article #675Time-zone abbreviations in international mail
From: Scott Horne
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 19:15
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 19:15
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I've established an e-mail connexion with someone in Beijing. I recently
posted some news he sent me to `soc.culture.china', to which I often submit
articles. The contact in Beijing asked me not to reveal his name or address;
I agreed to this.
Now some people in that newsgroup are accusing me of faking the mail just
because I won't identify the author. I yielded more than I wanted to by
posting the header without the paths and names.
This still didn't convince some people; in fact, one person has called me a
liar and a forger! (See his article in that group.) His reason? According
to him, times on mail from Asia and Australia are given in Greenwich Mean Time,
and my header contains things like `HKT' (``Hong Kong Time'') and `JST'
(``Japan summer time'').
I know I'm right on this, for I *did* receive that mail from Beijing. But
would someone please tell him (preferably by posting to `soc.culture.china'
or sending me mail, a summary of which I'll post there) that my header is
genuine (or ``could be'', for cynics like him)?
Advance thanks.
--Scott
Scott Horne Hacker-in-Chief, Yale CS Dept Facility
horne@cs.Yale.edu ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne
Home: 203 789-0877 Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520
Work: 203 432-1205 Summer address: 175 Dwight St, New Haven, CT
I wish I *could* represent Yale, but Benno Schmidt won't let me....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Time-zone abbreviations in international mail Message-ID: <63066@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 8 Jun 89 19:15:23 GMT Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 29