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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Gnus-5.8.2, INN-1.5.1, Y2K: NEWGROUPS shows all groups on server now
Date: 04 Jan 2000 16:11:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylzoul5qd0.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "04 Jan 2000 15:40:07 -0500"

Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> Since the NEWGROUP command only wants a 2-digit year, it seems
> susseptible to Y2K insanity. Is there a Gnus workaround? Or is this a
> server issue, with perhaps some sane windowing done in a version we
> don't have (yet)?

It's a server issue.  INN 1.5.1 has a Y2K bug in the handling of NEWGROUPS
and NEWNEWS that's fixed in INN 1.6 and later.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-01-05  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-04 20:40 Chris Shenton
2000-01-05  0:04 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-05  0:11 ` Russ Allbery [this message]

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