[sf-lug] observations of spam

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Mon Oct 27 11:58:46 PDT 2008


On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, John Lowry wrote:

> I also get spam where time stamp is 2038. I think the idea is that a lot
> of free web based mail services show email in order of reception so
> emails with a timestamp that are newer will be shown at the top of the list.

Note that 1969 (well, 1970, but 1969 in US timezones) and 2038 are 
respectively the beginning and the end of time_t 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time>.

-- Asheesh.

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