In message David Maynard
wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

David Maynard writes:


Except for spammers that routinely post years, even decades, into the past.


What's the advantage of doing so? And why can't servers simply reject
anything that is obviously far in the past?


Hell if I know but I just got one dated 1969.

That's usually because the date header was missing completely, and some
system along the way assigned a header of Jan 1 1970 -0000, then
corrected for timezone shift.

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