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From: milazzo@rice.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Several questions/comments on time zones
Message-ID: <1984.01.29.16.39.59.630.00537@Rice-vms.rice>
Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 17:39:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 17:39:59 1984
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Comments: possibly from @MIT-MC:milazzo@RICE-JANUS
To: solomon@wisc-crys.ARPA (Marvin Solomon)
In-Reply-To: a message from Marvin Solomon dated Sun, 29 Jan 84 08:35:43 cst


	"If RFC 733 (and its successor, 822) had not made the mistake
	of defining a mail header in such a way as to make it appear to
	be designed to be read, the header could encode dates in any
	form convenient for exchange (some encoding of UT) [...]."

It is my understanding that RFC 733 did not invent the contents of a
mail header; similar formats had been in use for some time.  RFC 733
simply tried to make known (and perhaps official) the various de facto
standards which had sprung up in the Internet community.  Thus it
became a sort of "conglomerate standard".  I consider this effort a
noble one, if perhaps incompletely successful.

				Paul G. Milazzo 
				Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
				Rice University, Houston, TX