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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Time-zone abbreviations in international mail
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Date: 8 Jun 89 19:15:23 GMT
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Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT   06520-2158
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I've established an e-mail connexion with someone in Beijing.  I recently
posted some news he sent me to `soc.culture.china', to which I often submit
articles.  The contact in Beijing asked me not to reveal his name or address;
I agreed to this.

Now some people in that newsgroup are accusing me of faking the mail just
because I won't identify the author.  I yielded more than I wanted to by
posting the header without the paths and names.

This still didn't convince some people; in fact, one person has called me a
liar and a forger!  (See his article in that group.)  His reason?  According
to him, times on mail from Asia and Australia are given in Greenwich Mean Time,
and my header contains things like `HKT' (``Hong Kong Time'') and `JST'
(``Japan summer time'').

I know I'm right on this, for I *did* receive that mail from Beijing.  But
would someone please tell him (preferably by posting to `soc.culture.china'
or sending me mail, a summary of which I'll post there) that my header is
genuine (or ``could be'', for cynics like him)?

Advance thanks.

					--Scott

Scott Horne                           Hacker-in-Chief, Yale CS Dept Facility
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Home: 203 789-0877              Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT   06520
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