Subject: i guess i have a msil problem

From: Brad Wyman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 22:57:16 -0600 (EST)

i have forwarded a problem that someone at belllabs sent me. anyone know
how this is happening? and how i can fix ir?
thanks

Brad Wyman
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:12:50 -0500
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]

i noticed in our logs that a piece of mail from
you was delivered to our domain, perhaps via
a mailing list, with the following header:

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:26:26 -0600 (EST)
From: Brad Wyman <[email-masked]>
X-Sender: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
cc: [email-masked], recipient list not shown: ;

the "-0600 (EST)" is an illegal timezone declaration;
EST is 5 zones east of GMT, not 6.

i'm telling you this because that bogus time stamp
is a symptom of a forged header used by one of the
mailers favored by spammers and most spam filters
mark messages with that fingerprint as having a high
likelihood of being spam.

i'm just tipping you off that it's in your best
interest to set your system's timezone specification
correctly, or you stand a good probability of having
your messages rejected or filtered.

bob flandrena

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