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Re: Spam with date set in the future

2002-07-01 18:20:12
At 00:42 2002-07-02 +0100, Alan Clifford wrote:

And, as I received a spam today, dated 2nd March, a past date one as well
(allowing a good margin for not downloading the mail whilst on holiday but
just reading it with a web mail thingy at my pop box host).

Keep in mind that if you REPROCESS mail - manually unpack a mailbox into your procmail filters, you should have some way to disable that particular filter, or you'll hose yourself for it. Additionally, there are some bright bulbs out there who run systems that are sometimes over a YEAR off mark, so hopefully if you're filtering the messages, it's not to /dev/null, and is perhaps at AFTER greenlist handling, if you do that sort of thing.

Not so long ago, someone contacted the webadmin of one of the sites I deal with, and complained to them that the date on their webpage was seriously wrong. The webadmin kindly pointed out to them that the webpage used javascript to show the date so that it would be local to the viewers own timezone, and that if it displayed anything goofy, it was the user's own computer which was set wrong. IIRC, this reply was met with absolute silence.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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