Gnus-5.8.2, INN-1.5.1, Y2K: NEWGROUPS shows all groups on server now

Gnus-5.8.2, INN-1.5.1, Y2K: NEWGROUPS shows all groups on server now

[Chris Shenton]

On one server I read from, I notice it now feeding me a list of (what
appears to be) all the groups it has.  This just started since the Y2K
roll-over.

I notice when I do a:

        NEWGROUP 000104 153700

to ask for all groups since right now, that it lists them all, as it
does when I ask it to list since some date in the future, like:

        NEWGROUP 001004 000000

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)?

Thanks.

Re: Gnus-5.8.2, INN-1.5.1, Y2K: NEWGROUPS shows all groups on server now

[Stainless Steel Rat]

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* Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>  on Tue, 04 Jan 2000
| On one server I read from, I notice it now feeding me a list of (what
| appears to be) all the groups it has.  This just started since the Y2K
| roll-over.

A number of older news servers have a similar problem (nntpcache for one).
The fix is to upgrade the obsolete server, because all news readers will
have problems with it, not just Gnus.
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Re: Gnus-5.8.2, INN-1.5.1, Y2K: NEWGROUPS shows all groups on server now

[Russ Allbery]

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.

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