Rich Grise wrote:

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:39:51 -0600, David Maynard wrote:

DevilsPGD wrote:

In message David Maynard

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.


Possible. But that doesn't explain the ones dated 2001.


Well, Y2K, of course. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich



Hehe. Sure.

I did go look at the 1969 header and it had a date of something like 20450,
which apparently wrapped and rolled into 1969 by the time Netscape finished
interpreting it.

The 2001 header was simply 2001.