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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:24:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
[...]
and some other ways I can think of, then I'll make new fixed versions
for the other ports and put those up too.
[...]

Awrighty, I just installed the new nntpd on the other 3 ports.  Now all four
ports of 119, 1119, 8000, and 8080 have the new nntpd.

Tony, has the problem now vanished?

--Todd

[cc'ing a copy to Tony via email]



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  Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
 
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Todd Lehman (<387104e3.86108693@...gnet.com>) wrote at 20:24:53 (...) Yep. Thanks very much :-) While I could just about follow your code, I couldn't really contribute anything useful, so I just bowed out for a while. I *do* now (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
 
(...) Spiffy! Are you going to make the patches publicly available somewhere? Maybe there's a CNews newsgroup? Jasper (25 years ago, 4-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!)
 
(...) OK, the other thing the NEWNEWS command was doing was comparing 12-character date strings (for example, "991231235959" is the last second of 1999) as generated by a function ltod() which called sprintf with values obtained via gmtime(), which (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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