Sorry, but what I need/want to know is when the poster wrote the message,
so that I can interpret references like "today" or "a few hours ago", and
so that I can know in what time zone (and thus what part of the world)
the poster is in. If I want to know when the mailing list software got
the message, I can look at the "Received:" fields. If I wanted to
organize messages by time of posting, I would add 5 lines of code to my
program to account for the GMT offset. If it is incorrectly set, well,
that's life. Better get the information I want most of the time than
information I have no interest in all the time :-) X- fields are not
acceptable to me because I don't see them unless I ask for them, and I
often do check the date of posting. Plus, they are often removed by
gateways. If anything, the date of receipt should go in the X- field, and
it is already in the Received: lines so personally I think this
information is redundant. Finally, it does not scale to peered lists
where various peers may get the same postings in different sequences.
Eric
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