[Cryptography] Satoshi Nakamoto Email Timestamps Disambiguation Request

[Howard Chu]

Kapilkov, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’m trying to figure out the correct timing/chronology of Satoshi’s emails.
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> I have been trying to figure out for a while now, the discrepancy about the date/time when Satoshi announced his wp on the Crypto Mailing List:
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>  1. The assumed date is Oct 31, 2008 (https://metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html
 <https://t.co/0SlPr5k2GC?amp=1>)
>  2. However, another archive gives Nov 1 (https://mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html
 <https://t.co/C1jgqyFxsn?amp=1>) 
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> Talking into account different time zones, you get:
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>  1.  Oct 31 14:10:00 ET
>  2. Nov 1, 2008 18:16:33 ET 
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> The second archive seems to be more trustworthy as Wayback Machine took the first snapshot in Dec 2008
> https://web.archive.org/web/20081224103053/https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html <https://t.co/PG6ClWiQbC?amp=1>
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> And it’s not just his email announcing Bitcoin, you have a discrepancy with all of his emails and the problem is that this discrepancy is not even consistent. 
> Could anyone who still has Satoshi’s emails tell me what is the correct timing?  Is any particular source accurate or none of them are accurate?  I assume the
> difference may come from the way the emails get imported into these archives, but I’m not sure.

I would expect since majordomo @ metzdowd.com is the first to receive the message, the timestamp
on its archive is closest to the correct time. In any case, if you examine the Reply link on the
two respective pages you'll see they both reference the same messageID so it's pretty likely that
it is the same message just received later by the 3rd party archiver.

e.g.:  <A
HREF="mailto:cryptography%40metzdowd.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Bitcoin%20P2P%20e-cash%20paper&In-Reply-To=%3CCHILKAT-MID-dd013ecc-8c7f-fc14-b1c5-cc9fd0181098%40server123%3E"
       TITLE="Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper">satoshi at vistomail.com
       </A>

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