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Subject:	Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:27:49 GMT
Reply-To:	MATTDM@stopspammersMATTDM.ORG
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote: > What _should_ my newsreader be giving? An 8-digit year? Or 7? Todd, I think this is an actual problem: jadzia:~$ telnet lugnet.com nntp Trying 209.68.63.236... Connected to lugnet.com. Escape character is '^]'. 200 lugnet.com NNTP[auth] server version 1.5.12.2 (9 Jan 1996) ready at Sat J 1 16:22:58 2000 (posting ok). NEWGROUPS 501 Usage: NEWGROUPS yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]. NEWNEWS 501 Usage: NEWNEWS newsgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]. It wants a 6-digit date string; using 20000101 or 1000101 return errors. And 000101 sure does return all groups or messages. -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/

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		Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
(...) Agreed -- definitely a bona fide Y2K bug in all its glory. Hopefully I can find a patch for this, otherwise I'll dig in and fix it myself. (Have got the source, thankfully. :) --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!
(...) Looks like your newsreader (and mine) is actually correct. From RFC 977: NEWGROUPS date time [GMT] [<distributions>] A list of newsgroups created since <date and time> will be listed in the same format as the LIST command. The date is sent as (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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