On 29 Oct 2006 as I do recall, Harriet Bazley wrote: > On 29 Oct 2006 as I do recall, > Mark J wrote: [snip] > > I've had spam with no "day," in the Date line, which might mess things > > up somewhat :-( > > > Well, if you can't predict the Date format (which I believe is actually > laid down in an RFC somewhere) things get rather difficult. :-( > Hang on, what happened to my e-mail?! What I actually went on to write was that it was easy enough to trap one *specific* variant: excess%=3 REM number of days into future we will accept e-mail from(!) IF INSTR(d$,",") THEN date$= MID$(d$,6,11) ELSE date$=LEFT$(d$,11) REM dd mmm yyyy [...] -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.