Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)

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From: Tom Hughes
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <19950401.001339.81@musicbox.demon.co.uk> Richard Birkett (richard@musicbox.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> Incidently, Stewart's message *has* got a local "+0100" time in its
> header.  It looks as if it's only NNTP POST that gets meddled with by
> news.demon, and he uses some other method of posting.  I'll try sending
> this message via mail2news and see what happens (my Date: line was Sat,
> 01 Apr 1995 00:13:39 +0100 when I sent this message - has it changed?).

It's been rewritten as +0000 :-)

> Maybe this discussion should move to demon.service or demon.ip.support
> (where it has been touched upon recently) - or do other people out
> there have similar problems with news servers mucking around with their
> article headers?  As I and other people have mentioned, news.demon
> doesn't limit itself to altering timezones, either.

They are allowed to rewrite header for NNTP POST, but not for IHAVE. In
particular, the adding of X-Nntp-Posting-Host is a *very* good idea, as
it enables better tracking of messages if people try forging, spamming
or other net abuse.

Tom

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From: tom@compton.demon.co.uk (Tom Hughes)
Subject: Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)
Date: 1995/04/01
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