Joe Celko [71062.1056@compuserve.com], quotes me:
... the growth of standard time laws. Don't remember much more about it, but the full story is in "The History of American Time."
Would you mind giving me the full reference for that book?
Unfortunately I don't have a full reference. I remember it came out about 1990, and forget the author's name. It deals mostly with the establishment of standard time, with the last chapter devoted to daylight time. sharris@apple.com also quotes me:
Another, related mailing list I subscribe to, CALNDR-L, run by Rick McCarty of East Carolina University, was suffering from spam
Can you tell me a bit about this list you are referring to, and how one can subscribe?
The list is about calendars: actual and proposed, along with related subjects, like the number of days in a year and the change in that number (which of course is related to leap seconds). It's been up since last October. To subscribe, send a one-line email SUBSCRIBE CALNDR-L to LISTSERV@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU. In December members of CALNDR-L started to receive spam from various sources. So the list moderator decided to require that all posts sent from non- subscribers be cleared through him. Posts from subscribers are still automatically posted. No spam has appeared on the list since this policy was adopted five months ago. Although it is possible that a subscriber could send spam, anyone who did would be expelled from the list and everyone on the list is a sensible person who would not do such a thing. I would advocate a similar policy here on tz to stop spam. Dave Skinner (dave@kirdu.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
I totally agree that the spammers should be stopped, and if that takes monitoring postings before they are actually posted, then so be it.
The only posts that would be monitored/moderated would be those from non-tz subscribers; not an undue burden. Chris