[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[Porpoise]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:do9p0i$q4p$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Porpoise wrote:
>
>> Start with the smallest unit, then the medium size unit, then the
>> largest unit..... gives you.... dd.mm.yy
>
> ... which would be little endian, which seems as illogical and unnatural
> to me as would be using little endian for a decimal system.

I wasn't touching the little/big issue, just the logic of going small -> 
medium -> large  -  rather than medium -> small -> large. I agree, however, 
that large -> medium -> small (ISO - yyyy.mm.dd) would be the logical, 
unambiguous, solution.