On 18/09/18 19:12, druck wrote:
> On 17/09/2018 23:42, Theo wrote:
>> My guess is the Fidonet side of things doesn't have timezones (at all, or
>> set correctly), and the Fido-Usenet gateway is in New Zealand, so all
>> Joe's
>> postings are coming out with UTC+12 timezones.  If he's in fact in UTC-5
>> that would cause his postings to be timestamped 17 hours early.
>>
>> His quoting is using BBS standards, which is what happens what
>> postings are
>> made on a BBS and gatewayed to Usenet.
>
> My guess is he is posting from UTC+12-25years.
> Who the hell uses a BBS to Usenet gateway after the early 1990s?
>
> ---druck
Possibly someone who serves aq clientele with no broadband


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