[ntp:questions] Re: Good GPS for attic?

Gary S. Idontwantspam at net
Wed Feb 16 20:16:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:23 GMT, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
<wolfgang+gnus20050216T115026 at dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:

>A few years ago, when folks still used kerberos there was a raging
>debate about kerberos's "unreasonable" demands that the system clocks
>be within 5 minutes of each other.  I always thought this was a great
>bozo filter, preventing folks from mistakenly logging in to a poorly
>administered machine.
>
Quite a bit of spam, and very little "real" email, has a system clock
time way off from reality. If you account properly for the time zones
and delivery delays, this might be another sort of spam filter.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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