THIS IS NOT A 3000 RELATED ISSUE. If not interested, CLOSE immediately!
 
It is about a MAIL problem that affects most of us. We have MANY readers on
this list and I think it is appropriate to share it.
 
I do not know if this happens to other electronic mail systems. I use
MS-Mail and I am having trouble following some treads on the list because of
the difference in time zones. If a request issued at any workstation is time
stamped, let's say at 2:00pm, and someone on a time zone 4 hours behind it
receives the message at 10:00am, an immediate reply will issue a new message
time stamped around 10:05am. This means that when I get these messages the
next morning, many answers are displayed before the request.
 
My question is, do all E-Mail packages do this, or are there some that can
allow you to sort the messages by the date/time they were RECEIVED on your
local POSTOFFICE instead? Of course this means that the LOCAL postoffice
that handles your mail must put a received time stamp on each message. I do
not know if this is possible but it would only solve the problem partially
because the postoffice can receive both messages at the same time. The best
thing to do would be to time stamp the messages with Greenwich time and have
the MAIL setup program include a TIME ZONE field for the workstation that
will be used to display the correct time for the zone upon retrieval of the
messages.
 
Maybe I am wishing too much but mail software companies should be thinking
about this for their next releases. .
 
Regards,
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