Hello Axel,

HD>> The message should almost allways have the time and timezone of the
HD>> location of the writer, period.

AB> While true up to a point, this is not helpful.

It is the only way I can work in FidoNet.

HD>> Now the gate mixes time and time zones ;-(.

AB> Exactly.

So it is a problem of the behavior of the gate, not me.

AB> It's you who chose a gateway of known,

I did not choose that gate software, I only choose a FidoNet EchoMail Area.

AB> albeit arguably wrong behaviour.

So blame the gator, not the writer.

AB> It's (more than) a courtesy to your readers to adapt yoursettings

Not at all, as I am then disturbing FidoNet EchoMail rules, inclusive
threading.
And second I am not writing at NZ times.
This system is also open for POTS BBSusers as well as FidoNet Points.
With your wish, they all have to change time settings, arg.
Come on, the fault is NOT laying at this FidoNet side of the gate.

AB> so we can see if your post came before or after another in the thread.

That's your problem, as you want to read mail from Fido clients too.
If you want that problem solved, ask the user of the gate to correct it,
or the writer of his software (soupgate) he uses, but NOT me.

AB> Your timezone, while not totally irrelevant, is of far secondary
AB> interest to us.

Your problem of not having a correct thread display is far secondary interest
of the Fido users ;-).
We have correct threads here.
As we do not come out of this problem, I'll stop discussing about it with you.

I found some other gate software, and placed that in the DownLoad here:

WG961014.ZIP   896,003 WaterGate 0.92 gamma. (961014)
                       Integrated Fidonet tosser and gateway
                       towards Internet. Shareware.
                       Tosses for Fidonet, UUCP, SMTP and BAG
                       formats. Includes gateway, areafix,
                       newsfix, sendfile robot, multi-language
                       support, mailing list server, automatic
                       file encoding and decoding (uuencoded,
                       xx-encoded and most MIME encodings) and
                       a lot more! The best, complete and most
                       user friendly package to connect your
                       Fidonet system to Internet e-mail and
                       Usenet news.
                       Supports the most widely used message
                       bases (JAM, Squish, *.MSG) and mailers
                       (Binkley,FrontDoor/InterMail,d'Bridge).
                       Extended manual in ASCII and HTML.
                       Easy to set up and excellent support!!
                       No time locks, No bombs, Not crippled.

You can call my BBS at 0031264425506, then goto File Area: Mailer.
Ofcourse the file can also be File Requested.
I am sure this gate software can be found at InterNet too.

Henri.

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