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Old January 7th 05, 03:35 PM
Seamey.T
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Hi Mart,

"WoW" just logged on,"What have I started"

"Mart" wrote:

That was the conclusion I was rapidly coming to Mike, and you have confirmed
g and hence my reference to both US$ and GBP in my 3rd post (23.33 hrs GMT
on 05/01/2005). I didn't know where the heck Seamey was from bg

Mart


"Mike M" wrote in message
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Mart,

AFAIK the CDO clock is correct, that is once your news client applies
e -8.00 hours correction.

What you are seeing is one of the many reasons why the CDO web interface
causes so many problems to those trying to help others in the newsgroups.
Namely it hides not only the posters IP address but also by making all
posts as if made from Redmond obscures the real location of the user. Add
to that a failure to provide any details of the operating system or
version in use, such as provided in many cases by the X-Newsreader and
X-MimeOLE headers in NNTP posts, taken together it makes helping CDO
posters a bit akin to working with a bag over your head. :-) A bit
extreme perhaps but IP address can help with ISP problems, Path with news
server problems, time zone with localisation problems (such as keyboard)
and as for Mailer/MIME versions I need to make no comment.

Cheers,
--
Mike


Mart wrote:

I should have said - "Take a look at the 'Properties' \ 'Details' -
they (Seamey's) are all -0800"
mine are all -0000

Like you said Noel, "he's using the CDP - so has no control
of the posting time (which is not affected by local settings,
except for the Redmond server clock)"

Never noticed that affect before - always ASSumed it to be correct
bg