Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists
On Friday 12 March 2021 17:13:40 David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 15:00:06 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:49:51 -0400 Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
> > > Does it work if I rather put this signature at the end of every
> > > message?
> > >
> > > Time zone: GMT-4
> > > Months: Ene = Jan ; Abr = Apr ; Ago = Aug ; Dic = Dec
> >
> > Actually, the time zone is redundant, as it is indicated in the
> > time/date stamp on your emails, as indicated above.
>
> It only works with the first level of attribution, because the next
> person to quote the quote may have a different timezone in their
> header.
>
> And that leaves aside the problem of attributions that have been
> silently converted into the quoter's timezone, with or without a
> new TZ being specified).
>
> Plus, it does appear that there are MUAs that attribute the time
> of a quote to the time at which the replier *started their reply*
> to the original email, which is completely bizarre. (There are
> several such MUAs posting here.)
Care to point some fingers at them?
> Cheers,
> David.
Thanks David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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