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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2004/06/15 09:20:38 UTC

Re: DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K

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jpff@codemist.co.uk writes:
> Can someone explain DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K?  I get a regular mailing that
> hits this, and as it is scored 4.2 the mail not infrequently trips
> over my limit.  Clearly I could change the score and/or white list the
> sender, but I would like to know what the purpose of this rule is.  I
> cannot see anything odd about the date it matches
> 
> Date:     Tue, 15 Jun 04 01:50:01 EDT
> 
> Is it just the 2-digit year?

yep.  2-digit years are not RFC-compliant, and a whole load of spamware
makes that mistake.

- --j.
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