"Bill Potts" wrote on 2002-10-07 07:14 UTC: > I'm not sure what the purpose of this discussion is.
Some people here mix up the difference between a network protocol specification and a user interface convention, that's all. Implementors have a habbit of passing the network representation on to the user interface, which is not necessarily a bad thing (especially it is less confusing when things go wrong). > Unless and until there is a major revision to SMTP (not likely), developers > of email software have no choice but to follow this protocol. SMTP has actually just undergone a major revision, but of course the date syntax was not changed, as the revision had to remain backwards compatible with the installed base The modernized email specification is: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
