 | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) Sorry, you're right, and I didn't mean to misquote Matthew. Anyway, I didn't mean broken in the non-workable sense, I meant broken in the poorly-designed sense[1]. The NNTP protocol shouldn't have to define that a two-digit year means 1900+xx (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) Oh, absolutely. (...) Yup. Maybe this was back when dates in Date: were also stored as two digits? (At least, ISTR that used to be the case). Ah well, on to Y10K. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) Actually, long before that, there'll be problems with all the windowing dates people picked.... Like, is 700101 for 2070? :) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) True enough. Well, there's always the 32-bit Unix date wraparound to get paranoid about. :) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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(...) Well, yeah, but those don't all happen at the same time.. And most of the truly critical systems can't use windowing anyway, due there being people who live longer than 100 years, etc.etc. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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