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Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 10 May 2004 04:23:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Rob Hendrix wrote:
I just got home and turned OE back on to check for new messages and the
newsgroup popped up. I think it may have been a delay on your end Todd,
somehow.

<WILD_SPECULATION>
I'll bet you anything that OE (*cough* *cough* Microsoft *cough* :-)
implements the 'NEWGROUPS' command in the NNTP protocol incorrectly, and
in your case sent CMT instead of GMT for the time when querying what new
groups exist.
</WILD_SPECULATION>

--Todd



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  Re: New newsgroup lugnet.color
 
(...) Hmm, I didn't think of it sooner, but I also bet if I had refreshed the newsgroup listings, It would have shown up. BTW, nice speculation; you should work for Microcough... (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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(...) I just got home and turned OE back on to check for new messages and the newsgroup popped up. I think it may have been a delay on your end Todd, somehow. (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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