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

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From: Clive.Jones
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <19950403.204552.34@compton.demon.co.uk> tom@compton.demon.co.uk writes:
>They can't, because they don't know the user name. The providers who add
>sender headers are those using shell accounts, where they know the user
>name. For dial-up accounts, the best that can be done is to add a line
>giving the hostname, which is what Demon do.

They could put an ident response in as well, if available. That way,
at least the sysadmin at a Demon customer site would have more
information to go on if someone from their site tried to mess around.

--Clive.
               (Disclaimer: I wouldn't believe a word of this if I were you...)

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From: Clive.Jones@armltd.co.uk
Subject: Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)
Date: 1995/04/04
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