robert wrote:
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:39:44 -0500
> From: hy...@lactose.homelinux.net
> Message-ID: <e1y0cqi-0004dv...@lactose.homelinux.net>
>
> | Now you're comparing content to metadata.
>
> Not really, I was certainly not suggesting doing anything with the
> content of the message (though I'm not sure about encapsulated messages).
>
> | The fact that I need to know, or should know, or do know, that the
> | sender is in British Summer Time, has no relation to my computer
> | noting that "this email was sent to you at 13:30 local time."
>
> No, but if the sender says "reply today" - I need to know what "today"
> was in his/her frame of reference when the message was sent - which is
> what the Date header (in its original form) tells me.
>
> Note that for this I don't necessarily know anything about the sender at
> all (consider messages requesting help sent to mailing lists - like this
> one..)
a reasonable compromise might be to default scan to show local ("oh,
that's from 3 hours ago"), and default show to give something like you
described exmh doing. it's more likely you care about what time they
sent the message while you're reading it.
paul
=----------------------
paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 31.5 degrees)
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