Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-09 Thread A Williams
Daniel wrote: A Williams wrote: and the 24 hours was chosen deliberately. Because ?? Accepting misconfigured timezones, rejecting real fakes. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/lis

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-09 Thread Daniel
A Williams wrote: Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Because such an invalid time stamp is proof that the message is spam. Real people don't keep their computer date and time so far off from reality. Well, just at the moment, Paul, you might pick me, as I'm swapping between Linux and Win

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Jonathan N. Little
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: Because Windows defaults to using *localtime* for the system's realtime clock and Linux uses UTC. Getting Windows to use UTC is a bit of a pain, so it is much easier to adjust Linux. Not m

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Jonathan N. Little wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: Because Windows defaults to using *localtime* for the system's realtime clock and Linux uses UTC. Getting Windows to use UTC is a bit of a pain, so it is much easier to adjust Linux. Not much of a pain here on Wind

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread A Williams
Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Because such an invalid time stamp is proof that the message is spam. Real people don't keep their computer date and time so far off from reality. Well, just at the moment, Paul, you might pick me, as I'm swapping between Linux and Win7. My clock varies

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Jonathan N. Little
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: Because Windows defaults to using *localtime* for the system's realtime clock and Linux uses UTC. Getting Windows to use UTC is a bit of a pain, so it is much easier to adjust Linux. Not much of a pain here on Windows 7. Right-click the cloc

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Jonathan N. Little wrote: Because Windows defaults to using *localtime* for the system's realtime clock and Linux uses UTC. Getting Windows to use UTC is a bit of a pain, so it is much easier to adjust Linux. Not much of a pain here on Windows 7. Right-click the clock at lower right corner o

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Jonathan N. Little
Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: A Williams wrote: Speaking strictly for myself, there are two categories I'd like to see blocked - the other one being posts where the date is more than 24 hours in the future. Why?? You could always find out the "real" posting time if y

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/8/2018 at 5:57 AM, Daniel created this epitome of digital genius: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: A Williams wrote: Speaking strictly for myself, there are two categories I'd like to see blocked - the other one being posts where the date is more than 24 hours in the future. Why

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Daniel
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: A Williams wrote: Speaking strictly for myself, there are two categories I'd like to see blocked - the other one being posts where the date is more than 24 hours in the future. Why?? You could always find out the "real" posting time if you needed it!

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Daniel wrote: A Williams wrote: Speaking strictly for myself, there are two categories I'd like to see blocked - the other one being posts where the date is more than 24 hours in the future. Why?? You could always find out the "real" posting time if you needed it! Because such an invalid t

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-08 Thread Daniel
A Williams wrote: Daniel wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/14/2017 2:30 PM: WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a

Re: Is this group moderated?

2018-01-07 Thread A Williams
Daniel wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/14/2017 2:30 PM: WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group follo

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread Daniel
Paul in Houston, TX wrote: rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/14/2017 2:30 PM: WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a differen

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread Paul in Houston, TX
rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/14/2017 2:30 PM: WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread rickman
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/14/2017 2:30 PM: WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moder

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
WaltS48 wrote: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting conforman

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread rickman
WaltS48 wrote on 12/14/2017 11:51 AM: On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster f

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread WaltS48
On 12/14/17 11:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting conformance to courtesy/p

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting conformance to courtesy/productivity issues. YMMV Mozilla newsgroups

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > If so, *WHY*? > > I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of > Netscape. > > On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting > conformance to courtesy/productivity issues. > > YMMV > Mozilla newsgroups are

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-14 Thread Daniel
Richard Owlett wrote: If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting conformance to courtesy/productivity issues. YMMV "following a different fork of Netscape." ... Wow, that's old

Re: Is this group moderated?

2017-12-13 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/13/2017 3:45 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > If so, *WHY*? > > I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of > Netscape. > > On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting > conformance to courtesy/productivity issues. > > YMMV > No, mozilla.support.se

Is this group moderated?

2017-12-13 Thread Richard Owlett
If so, *WHY*? I ask because I follow a similar group following a different fork of Netscape. On that group the moderator chastised a poster for suggesting conformance to courtesy/productivity issues. YMMV ___ support-seamonkey mailing list suppor