[Mailman-Developers] Dates again

[John W. Baxter]

On 11/20/2004 13:26, "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> --On Saturday, November 20, 2004 6:22 AM -0500 Steven Kuck <scrib at afn.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> As I said, I can guarantee messages from the future are wrong.  Disagree?
>> 
>> Perhaps messages from more than a day (or N days) in the past could be
>> bounced saying:
>> "Either your system clock is wrong or your message was unreasonably
>> delayed.  Either fix your clock, or make sure your message is still
>> current and send it again."
>> Alternately, the message could be held for approval or date fixing, and
>> you could set that user as "Date Impaired" so that all messages from that
>> individual get fixed - if they're off.
> 
> This seems a reasonable approach, given a configurable delivery delay
> tolerance. One could also cross-check References headers against messages
> already received, to set a lower limit on the time stamp. If a message
> claims to have been sent prior to one it references (modulo some
> tolerance), then it can be bounced/modified/moderated.

Keep in mind that there are MUAs which set the Date: as the message is
begun, not when it is sent.  If the sender leaves it as a draft for a couple
of days before sending, the Date: will be "two days old".  (What one wants
to do with that date is another matter.)

  --John