rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (05/04/91)
I see a number of articles rejected due to old dates. Attached are excerpts from the headers for yesterday's rejections. They are all in the info.* hierarchy of mailling lists gatewayed to news at UIUC. The gatewaying host, ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, runs the latest cnews, so presumably rejects messages with unparseable dates (anne.jones handles this). But from the way inews enters the messages into relaynews, out of date messages are not rejected till they get to the next site. Hey, you folks with PCs. Either learn to set the time when you turn on your machine, or buy a battery backed up clock, or configure your email software to not include a 'Date:' header. From: JBECK@bmgtmail.umd.EDU Message-ID: <9105021257.AA29966@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: ERIK@brock1p.BITNET (Erik L Seielstad) Message-ID: <9105021311.AA10920@Early-Bird.Think.COM> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: esuarez@fcaglp.EDU.AR (Eduardo A. Suarez) Message-ID: <693dq365@fcaglp.edu.ar> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: PA9690@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU (Alan Luchuk) Message-ID: <9105022145.AA29138@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: PA9690@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU (Alan Luchuk) Message-ID: <9105022147.AA29878@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: mmdf@munich-emh1.ARmy.MIL (E-Mail) Message-ID: <9105030631.AA14311@Early-Bird.Think.COM> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: ARNALDO@riosc.BITNET (Arnaldo Viegas de Lima) Message-ID: <9105031134.AA14741@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT From: stephane@GRASP1.UNIV-LYON1.FR (Stephane Guillard) Message-ID: <9105030801.AA14398@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1) (05/07/91)
In article <1991May3.173007.21900@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > > Hey, you folks with PCs. Either learn to set the time when you turn on >your machine, or buy a battery backed up clock, or configure your email >software to not include a 'Date:' header. > > From: JBECK@bmgtmail.umd.EDU > Message-ID: <9105021257.AA29966@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT > > From: ERIK@brock1p.BITNET (Erik L Seielstad) > Message-ID: <9105021311.AA10920@Early-Bird.Think.COM> > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Three notes: 1. Any serious sufferer of the PC would know that PCs start time at Jan 1, 1980. 2. All IBM PCs since the AT (1984) have come with a battery-backed up clock. Clones have generally followed IBM practice. Of course, batteries eventually run down. 3. One of those addresses is Bitnet. Bitnet is built on IBM's protocol NJE (basically). I'd love to learn of an implementation of NJE for the PC. -- Craig Jackson dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com {bbn,axiom,redsox,atexnet,ka3ovk}!drilex!{dricej,dricejb}