Is this a record?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I just recieved an item of spam mail dated August 1996.

[Tim Watts]

Really dated? As in Received headers with antique dates?

[Scott M]

Flog it on ebay. That's an antique, that is.

[spuorgelgoog]

It wasn't offering shares in Netscape was it?

Owain

[Davey]

There are lots of old messages floating around from old dates, just keep an eye on the newsgroups, you'll see people responding to questions that are several years old, not realising. I think it's the electrons finally being shaken out of all the old telegraph lines.

[John Williamson]

It usually seems to happen just after GG have changed their interface yet again.

[Davey]

Probably. I keep well away from there.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Here is the header with the personal info modified

From - Thu Apr 10 17:37:42 2014 X-Account-Key: account4 X-UIDL: 000094d94f407633 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys:

Return-path: Envelope-to: me@mydomain Delivery-date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:28:39 +0100 Received: from [70.39.76.189] (helo=smtp.aimgroupe.com) by my.relay with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WYHqA-0001q3-HQ for me@mydomain; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:28:39 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=k1; d=aimgroupe.com; h=Mime-Version:Content-Type:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To; i= [e-mail]; bh=cctfxjtqTNdZg6zKIIqAMfMTCLQ=; b=cSLFAA5eo9+Hhlde+iWObpavbhh7YGv4UdYzaws5tjr472GnM/6J2nh2kmOK0fT5VfhOHWhFF7ZT USQdvuX23HUSyWPhbyTP13rwOic16DKE9jaTs+r1WsTLkeaEF4jHKfWo4FxO0XfmgjL2Y7uTjENM Z0cXXghrHQRkVHISFBw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=k1; d=aimgroupe.com; b=mvv00CsMgKIxLGHrEDrqb9m1K4RQ0VfL/6Skskh4786I+qTD2AClbFR5NRIrnfPWq2etRtSQkp3l /NWY+AgZbI7N5FHXvNLlHNJAY8ShY+XVU0GnUHOGttFoTig8bjO2jVejBppQ6L7tkPrM2P7OjrhN rxorbRHblw/eCsnZ0oI=; Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="84fc9c79f9c30e59a72f0355fc7ecc4f50ab56be" Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:19:09 -0600 From: "Brenda Scherler" Reply-To: "Kelly Prepotente" Subject: Are these martha stewart pics real? Shocking confession To:

[Brian Gaff]

Are you sure the date was real and not some kind of messed up host computer some place? Otherwise I'd imagine it would be rejected by some intermediate server. Brian

[Tim Watts]

That just means they wrote a crap Date: header... Now if one of the Received: headers had been prehistoric too :)

[Tim Watts]

No it was faked (mail servers will sometimes add a missing Date: header but will not mess with one the client supplies).

Usually IME it's more like "1-1-1970" - It's a trick to get the mail to display at the top of your Inbox list.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not a good idea since I read from the bottom and there are usually over

1000 items in it I haven't bothered to clear out yet

[Theo Markettos]

Perhaps it's a new internet meme - googling for messages people wrote in the same minute 18 years ago:

Theo

[whisky-dave]

Was it dated using roman numerals ?

[Tim Watts]

Too modern - try Mayan for a funky numbering system :)