Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Murray.pa@XEROX.ARPA From: Murray.pa@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: problem with WISCVM gateway Message-ID: <8172@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:06:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8172 Posted: Sat Feb 9 19:06:52 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:10:27 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 There may be only one date format in the specs, but reality is a lot different. When our header munger encounters a header that it can't parse, it can send me a message including a copy of the pesky header. Occasionally it's a bug in the parser. Normally it's a mail generating program that doesn't play by the rules. Crazy dates are quite common, and this is after our parser has been patched to know about the common illegal formats. I'll collect some samples if you want any data. (I'll even unpatch the parser if you want a lot of data.) And if you think there is a standard for dates.... I'm still amazed at the number of messages that come through with "at" where there should be an "@".