[ILUG] Excessive ministerial correspondence

[Ronan Mullally]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:

>  Received: from firewall.welfare.gov.ie
>             ([193.178.95.4] helo=firewall.welfare.irlgov.ie)
>            by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id <aa13179 at salmon>;
>            27 Nov 2009 09:04:00 +0000 (GMT)
>  Received: from cskma0293.welfare.irlgov.ie (cskma0293.welfare.irlgov.ie [10.1.199.243])
>          by firewall.welfare.irlgov.ie with ESMTP id nAR99Prj000345
>          for <tim at maths.tcd.ie>; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:09:25 GMT
> Received: from a1.welfare.irlgov.ie by office.welfare.irlgov.ie
>  (PMDF V6.2-1x2 #31714) id <01NGKY8XBFTMEBPENQ at office.welfare.irlgov.ie> for
>  tim at maths.tcd.ie; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:03:52 +0000 (WET)
...
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:03:47 +0000 (WET)

These timestamps suggest that the message is being freshly originated by
an application in the Dept of Welfare rather than a single message that's
gotten "trapped" somewhere along the way.

They also suggest the Dept don't (or at least don't consistently) use NTP
to keep their clocks in sync. It's a little ironic to see they're ahead of
things rather than lagging behind...


-Ronan