) (05/09/91)
I have been fiddling around with Rodney's UUCP modules (Mercury UUCP) and the GUS GEM UUCP Shell for the past month or two, trying to decide whether to keep them or rewrite them. 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. If you use your ST to post to Usenet via UUCP, it is quite likely that Cnews sites around the world have been quietly throwing away all your postings without even trying to tell you. It happened to me. Yes, Mercury should create date fields in the proper format; but equally, Cnews should not throw away articles which it is perfectly capable of correcting the headers of and of delivering. If you think that this Cnews behaviour is unacceptable, I would suggest complaining in news.software.b. If we all scream loudly enough, perhaps they will fix it. mathew
jan@janhh.hanse.de (Jan Willamowius) (05/10/91)
From article <g5No26w164w@mantis.co.uk>, by mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!): > 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. The problem is fixed in a new veersion of GUS (now HERMES). Try to get an update. - Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Nienredder 6, 2000 Hamburg 54, Germany E-Mail: jan@janhh.hanse.de