From:	Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@***.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Drake and Skirvin
Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 1994 19:37:40 -0500

> Tom: Geez, all we're asking for is a brief delay. Don't get your
> hackles up.

First of all, I'm Tim, not Tom... <grin>

Beyond that, the delay isn't really...practical. At all. I have a
virtual timetable going here...all having to do with when Chicago acatually
WAS screwed up bad. I can adjust it a little without problems, but not much.
As it is, it's going to be off by more than a month, and that's bad.

All I'm asking for is for the universe to be correct. That's it.

> stamps on this board, and I suppose that's OK. But still, only
> deckers should be able to do it, and even then they have to be top
> of the line, superhot datajocks, the top 10%.

Agreed. I don't mind Spirit's, for instance...it seems to look
good, and be something of her pride and joy. Others seem to be using it as
a .sig, which it CERTAINLY isn't.

> So I guess the question is, how exactly do text time/date stamps
> work?

How it's supposed to work is this: the name is retrieved from the
deck (so it's changable), but the time and date are retrieved from various
computer systems from all over the place. Everything is checked. And crash-
ing one system won't do it, either. There's lots of 'em...

> program to keep up with net security? For that matter, do deckers
> actually type in these posts, or do it neurally? Any of you who
> actually know about

Probably it's typed. That's what it looks like in the shadowtalk
sections of the books. It doesn't look like thinking, and it certainly doesn't
act like it...

Tim Skirvin | "They didn't die for nothing, they died to bring
tskirvin@***.uiuc.edu| us Pepsi!" -- Mr Sutton on "Glory"