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/>
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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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