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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 05:29:51 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:58:29 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> This'll fix the problem Tony Priestman discovered, but there still may be
> other problems lurking around. I'm pretty surprised actually that even
> CNews had a Y2K bug. I guess CNews is just *so* old (it goes back to the
> 1980's, I think), and the NNTP protocol itself is broken, as MattM pointed
> out.
The NNTP protocol is _not_ Y2K broken going by the quoted bit of RFC,
though. Assuming Epoch for NNTP is the reasonable assumption, and the
RFC specifies what to do with that assumption - so NNTP isn't broken
for another 70 years (By which time Epoch will have been broken for a
while ;) ). At the very least, by the example given in the RFC, it 'll
be another 30 years before the assumption breaks.
Jasper
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