Re: OT: Re: Less is more

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:33:03 +0200, Frode Gill <frodegill@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > I beg to differ. As a little test, it would be interesting to see
> > how many of the mail-clients we use are able to parse the
> > Date:-header in this message, which as far as I can tell is
> > perfectly legal according to RFC2822.
> 
> Somewhere along the way, the header was replaced with something more
> clean, which is a good indication of that not everyone manages to
> parse legal RFC2822-headers.

not really, because it's not representative of the kinds of errors that
programmers make when writing 822 date parsers.


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