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Re: Good Luck everyone
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Date: 
Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:35:01 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmSPAMLESS.org
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
(Is Quotes 'R' Us Y2K compliant? Do you have your compliance statement
on file somewhere? If you send me a quote tomorrow that I've read
before, I'm going to want my money back! :-) )

:) Well, as you discovered, we're sending out messages dated in the year
100. (Should be fixed tonight.)

The problem is that for no particularly good reason, we're piping the
outgoing message through elm's send-file feature, rather than direct to
qmail. (There are reasons, just not particularly good ones.) And the script
doing so was referencing /usr/local/bin/elm, which didn't get updated even
though /usr/bin/elm, the one most everything else on the system uses, did.

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) Yes! And thank you(us?) each and every one. However, I am in agreement with the quoted stat that says most of the Y2K problems will not occur tomorrow (today in some places, Happy all digits rolled year to our Kiwi and Strine friends) but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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