On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:54:01PM +0100, Sander wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 07 20:33:10 +0100 > > So, wondering what the problem would be, i read the RFC. This says that > a 2-digit year is obsolete, but supported for backwards compatibility.
FWIW, SA doesn't care about RFC compliance in as much as it cares about
"likelihood of being spam".
> This regexp is easily broken down in little tests, and the year test
> seem to be
>
> (?:[12][901])?[0-9]{2}
>
> I would think that "07" as year would be allowed, but the test (changing
> 07 to 2007) shows otherwise. I've tried the regexp in an online perl
> regexp tester, and that showed that i am correct.
>
> Can anyone explain the error?
My guess is that you're using sa-update, which has a different regexp
for the rule. The year portion of which is /(?:19[7-9]\d|2\d{3})/,
which doesn't accept 2 digit years.
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