I use spelled-out dates (eg 21 February 1994) for exactly this reason, and
haven't gotten my wrist slapped yet :-).
I agree that the guidelines are overly nitpicky in places, but you can
ignore 'em where you have a good reason to. Where you don't have a good
reason to vary (eg, newsgroup order) why not just do it their way? Possibly
jik knows something you don't. If he explained the detailed reasons behind
*everything* in the guidelines, he'd be getting even more flak about how
they're too long and boring to read.
AFAIK the only absolutely unbendable rules are (a) you must provide an
Archive-name: line (for the benefit of the rtfm.mit.edu archiving daemon)
and (b) you must provide a Followup-To: line that directs followups out
of *.answers (if you don't understand why, better go read about how
moderated newsgroups work).
regards, tom lane
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