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

> > > 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?
> Yes, it does need to do so, and it does do so.  Nevertheless, messages 
> generated
> recently, now, and in the future, including Charles', are supposed to use
> numeric offsets 
uh, no.  software that claims to conform to RFC 2822 is supposed to use
numeric offsets. 

Keith