[Mailman-Developers] Re: New LockFile.py

Lance A. Brown brown9@niehs.nih.gov
Tue, 02 May 2000 10:41:57 -0400


Dick Poerter wrote:

> > Setting dates in the future seems like a really bad idea to me...
> 
> Postfix uses this technique to manage its deferred queue. I haven't seen
> any problems due to this reported on the postfix list.

The new versions of Big Brother also sets timestamps on files in the future.  There have been no reports of problems with this on the BB lists.

--[Lance]