OT- Freaks With Screwed Up NNTP Clocks

[Fred Bloggs]

How do these people manage this? -sending posts with date/time days in
advance sometimes. I think it's a ploy to capture way more notice than
they're due.

 

[qrk]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:13:13 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

How do these people manage this? -sending posts with date/time days in
advance sometimes. I think it's a ploy to capture way more notice than
they're due.

Because they're using Windoze XP with totally broken SNTP protocol.

 

[Active8]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:41:30 -0800, qrk wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:13:13 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:

How do these people manage this? -sending posts with date/time days in
advance sometimes. I think it's a ploy to capture way more notice than
they're due.

Because they're using Windoze XP with totally broken SNTP protocol.

I'm still using XP and my times come out right. Some readers allow
you to set GMT or local and that might be a prob. I once saw a reply
to one of my posts that was timestamped prior to my post. I thought
I had time warped, but after checking the headers, and asking the
poster, it turned out his clock was set wrong.
--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Dan]

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:40599255.9020902@nospam.com...

How do these people manage this? -sending posts with date/time days in
advance sometimes. I think it's a ploy to capture way more notice than
they're due.

No, its just a ploy to get the attention of trolls. Looks like it worked.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Dan wrote:

"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:40599255.9020902@nospam.com...

How do these people manage this? -sending posts with date/time days in
advance sometimes. I think it's a ploy to capture way more notice than
they're due.


No, its just a ploy to get the attention of trolls. Looks like it worked.

PLONK