On 8/6/2021 9:48 PM, Aspen via agora-discussion wrote: > While this is theoretically possible, it isn't doable in practice. To make > all the timestamps completely identical, you'd have to control not just > your mailserver, but all of the intermediate mail servers. If you didn't, > we could non-arbitrarily pick a message to come first.
Who's to say all the timestamps need to be completely identical as long as the primary ones are? If I look at message 1, and there's nothing "suspicious", I'd use the first timestamp. Same with message 2. Nothing about message 2's arrival makes message 1's primary timestamp any less valid - using any kind of tiebreaker at all would be arbitrary. And there's no particular rules support that ties actually need to be broken. -G.
