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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: day of week in Date header?
Date: 06 May 2000 00:52:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylr9bguncw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jesper Harder's message of "Sat, 06 May 2000 04:09:35 GMT"

Jesper Harder <jesper_harder@hotmail.com> writes:

> I get this list from the news-server at sunsite.auc.dk, and I know that
> it strips away the original date-header and inserts a new one -- this
> happens to mailing list messages and normal Usenet messages, too. The
> news-server at my ISP also does this.

> I don't think this behaviour actually violates rfc-1036, but it /is/
> wrong according to grandson-of-1036.

It violates a MUST in the current USEFOR draft, for what it's worth, and
has been the cause of spews in the past.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-06  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-05 17:47 Kai Großjohann
2000-05-05 18:59 ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-05 20:58   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-05 21:07     ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-05 21:56       ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-05 22:20         ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-06  4:09           ` Jesper Harder
2000-05-06  7:52             ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2000-05-06 11:37             ` Kai Großjohann

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