old format date fields (was Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying)

> By the way, could you *please* fix or replace the software which is generating
> the illegal Date headers in your messages, e.g.
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:07:33 GMT
> Non-numeric offsets have been in the "do not generate" category (see RFC 2822)
> for more than 20 months.
well, your software still needs to be able to read the things - otherwise how 
are
you going to read old email?

Keith