What is Communications Data?

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <20021112162825.GW9278@himalia.ftel.co.uk>, Ian G Batten
> <I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> writes
> >> As a way of identifying an email, it's better than the time sent to
> >> first MTA.
> >
> >Assuming the clock on the PC is accurate.  They rarely are.
> 
> I disagree entirely. That posting of yours purports to have been made at
> 16:28:25 [1], which will discriminate it from almost all other postings
> made by you at other purported times.

OK, so you're regarding a Date: header as just being a generator of
arbitrary tags?  OK: I assumed you were implying that a Date: would be
identifiable by the user as being ``about the time I sent it'',

ian