> And let's not forget that there are non-standard "syslog" implementations that were being used for decades before RFC3164 happened. totally agree these exist

> And let's not forget that there are non-standard "syslog" implementations that were being used for decades before RFC3164 happened. totally agree these exist and may vary wildly - many of these are often proprietary forks of the BSD version in some level of (un)maintained state, FWIW