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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.162357.29595@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 16:23:57 GMT

In article <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> [date conversion in user interface] ... There are many user
>interfaces that are useful for reading mail.  I count 'cat', and 'more'
>amongst them...

"cat" and the like were useful user interfaces in the days of UUCP mail,
but the advent of RFC822 headers has made them almost useless, given the
screenful or two of sludge one has to wade through before getting to any
useful information.  It takes a more intelligent interface just to pick
the tidbits of significant data out of those kilobytes of garbage; such
an interface can easily do date conversion.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry