From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/fs
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:59:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86BAE987-064C-4C93-9123-FF34AB1454DD@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f535c36d9c93be8d397f508a91c68a0@quanstro.net>
On 2008-Jun-11, at 19:31 , erik quanstrom wrote:
> right. since the date is attached when delivered to a mailbox,
> why doesn't this date change when it's delivered to a secondary
> mailbox? why is the assignment a magical property of the inbox?
Most likely it's just an artifact of the original UNIX mail
implementation. The \n^From<sp> separator line got generated at
initial delivery time, and the mail client used that as the display
time in the message summaries (e.g. Date: not spoken here). Therefore
it makes sense to preserve the initial separator line with it's date
intact to ensure consistency for display purposes. Think of it as the
UNIX ctime of the message.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 20:06 [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p gdiaz
2008-06-11 20:48 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-11 20:58 ` gdiaz
2008-06-11 23:44 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 0:01 ` [9fans] upas/fs Russ Cox
2008-06-12 2:31 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 2:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2008-06-12 8:34 ` [9fans] store 9p session-only values using lib9p gdiaz
2008-06-12 10:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 10:24 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-12 10:28 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-12 10:39 ` gdiaz
2008-06-12 10:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-12 10:55 ` gdiaz
2008-06-12 11:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-12 11:11 ` gdiaz
2008-06-12 17:16 ` lucio
2008-06-12 12:25 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 12:32 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 14:03 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-06-12 14:25 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 14:49 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-12 14:55 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-06-12 15:06 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 17:12 ` lucio
2008-06-12 10:26 ` gdiaz
2008-06-12 11:09 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-12 13:29 ` gdiaz
2008-06-12 14:10 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-12 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
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