Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS
Message-ID: <1991May13.172233.5581@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 17:22:33 GMT
References: <g5No26w164w@mantis.co.uk> <RALPH.91May13185018@orion.laas.fr>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <RALPH.91May13185018@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
>|  I has recently been drawn to my attention that said software is generating
>|  Usenet Date: headers with the year in full -- that is,  17 Jun 1991 instead
>|  of 17 Jun 91.
>| 
>|  THE NEW "IMPROVED" C-NEWS WILL SILENTLY DISCARD ALL SUCH ARTICLES, WITHOUT
>|  WARNING THE POSTER.
>| 
>Is this true!!  C-News should be corrected if this is the case.

Totally incorrect.  C News generates four-digit years everywhere and accepts
them everywhere.  If articles are being discarded, it's because of some
other mistake.  (People never seem to bother reading the specs before they
devise their own whacko date format.)
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
