Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.001125.2057@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 00:11:25 GMT
References: <3NIP9ZB@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <27F63B37.CFD@tct.com> <1991Apr02.183535.13886@buster.stafford.tx.us>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr02.183535.13886@buster.stafford.tx.us> rli@buster.stafford.tx.us writes:
>Check your headers, you will find that the articles you are posting
>contain an invalid date stamp. 

Sure about that?  Sure they didn't have a valid one when posted, but got
it rewritten into an invalid one by a B News site en route?

>Since Henry decided to bend the rules
>a little for the date checking and allow the old ctime(3) format...

Geoff is the guilty party on this stuff, although I agree with most of
his decisions.  And RFC1036 itself strongly recommends bending the rules
on date checking (and only on date checking).
-- 
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