BJ>> I believe there was something else at the time that also
 BJ>> drove the 2 second decision -- that was out of other fido
 BJ>> based sosftware implementations.

 WM> Two seconds is the limit of resolution in the FAT filesystem.
 WM> That's ultimately where it comes from.

and that only because the date/time stamp was taken from the original, one
message per file, format (ie: *.msg)... the stamp in the message header
can/could be different than the one on the disk but that the same
structures were (apparently?) used, lead us down this road...

)\/(ark