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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Markham
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1994-04-12 19:32:30
subject: dates

PE>> Echomail gets routed to new destinations, so gets a new net and node
 PE>> put in there for each message.

 PM> Ah, I didn't realise that the destination address was used in echo mail. I
 PM> though it would just pick it up from the packet header. Still, you don't
 PM> need to fiddle with the date field.

A packet can have messages in it bound for destinations other than the
person the packet is being sent to.

 PE>> So I noticed!  :-(  I've contacted all the originators of bad dates in
 PE>> the packet I was looking at and have kludged around the problem.

 PM> It doesn't have to be a kludge. Just move the date field from the input
 PM> record to the output. After the problems I had interpreting date fields, I

That's the kludge.  BFN.

Paul

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