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| Proves Time Delivered |
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| When a message was sent and when it was delivered
can be crucial and the precise measurement of these
times can be critical. UETA (Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act) provides that: |
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The time at which a message
is sent is the time at which it enters an
information processing system not in control
of the sender. |
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The time at which a message is delivered
is the time at which it enters an information
processing system that the recipient has designated
or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic
messages. |
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Note that, for the purposes of proving time of
delivery or sending, the time stamps displayed on
e-mails indicating time of sending or receipt are
valueless since they are entirely dependant on the
clocks of the sender's and recipient's desktop computers
and hence are highly inaccurate and easily manipulated.
RPost receipts record both the time at which the
RPost Registration System™ receives a message
from the sender and the time at which the message
was delivered to each of its destination servers.
RPost time is continuously set via Global Positioning
Satellite (GPS) timing controlled by the National
Institute of Standards & Testing's Atomic Clock
in Boulder, Colorado. The National Institute of
Standards & Testing reports that the system is accurate to
one second in twenty million years. |
