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Sat, 21 Dec 1996 03:32:32 GMT
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Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>LISTSERV enforces a "Date:" header that should be acceptable to most news
>software when  you are using  FULLHDR, as recommended for  gatewaying (it
>makes no attempt  to check the time zone against  the "official" list and
>thus  it  is  arguably  not  100% guaranteed  to  be  RFC822  compliant).
 
Is that like not being 100% pregnant?  Here's a date field from a
message from a user I had to NOPOST:
 
>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 07:33:09 -48000
 
This is UTC minus 20 days !!  8-)
 
LISTSERV accepted it just fine and SunOS inews rejected it.
 
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Daniel
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