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mike.kupfer@sun.com writes:

> Occasionally gnus will incorrectly flag a message as matching a
> "before" entry.  For example, consider the following header:
>
>   Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:23:39 -0700
>
> and the score entry
>
>  ("date"
>   ("1 Apr 2002 00:00:00" -100 nil before))
>
> I would not expect this to match, but it does.

I can't reproduce it.  What do you get if you evaluate this
expression:

(gnus-string>
 (gnus-date-iso8601 "1 Apr 2002 00:00:00")
 (gnus-date-iso8601 "Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:23:39 -0700"))