From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28574 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general 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 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87u2ktbmfs.fsf@Thanatos.Shenton.Org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165396 30554 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C402CD051E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:14:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB13953; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 18:14:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:14:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01599 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 18:13:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 70F4BD051E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:12:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 27359 invoked by uid 50); 5 Jan 2000 00:11:55 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "04 Jan 2000 15:40:07 -0500" Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28574 Chris Shenton 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)