🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

     it's funny  how fast NetNews can be:  about one day after posting
my  announcement  for  `hactar:~/incoming/wCNews.lha',  I saw one site
successfully  uucp'ing  it  to Switzerland (and another one failing to
do  so  to  southern  Germany  =:-<);  maybe in the meantime some more
poeple have got it by nuucp (preferred) or BMS, so I post this here.

     Well, unfortunately,  there  is  at  least  one stupid bug in the
supplied    `cn:relay/getdate.c'    (not    to    be   confused   with
`cn:lib#?/getdate.(c|y)'  -  in  my  opinion, that one is just one big
mistake =:->): numeric timezones are  recognized correctly but may get
computed  incorrectly  (I  forgot  to terminate the two strings =:-<),
causing  articles being rejected as being  `posted too far in future'.
(BTW,  if you re-relay the rejected batches (should have been moved to
`uunews:in.coming/bad/#?' by `newsrun'),  these  articles are  usually
accepted ...) This only  affects  you  if you have set `MaxArticleAge'
to something >0.

     I think  I  fixed  this  (hopefully  without introducing new bugs
=:->),  and  because  that  fix  (containing  new  `getdate.c' and the
resulting  `relaynews'  executable) is short enough, I've posted it to
alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches,de.alt.binaries.amigaos ...

-----rwxd     146    69945  Sep  3 21:15  wCNews_fix01.uue

BTW,  there's  a  `bugreport'  script  included,  *PLEASE* use that to
report any  bugs/wisches regarding `wCNews' to `bugs@hactar.hanse.de'.
And  *PLEASE*  use  it (or at least normal email) to `register' if you
are testing `wCNews', so I can inform you by email if neccessary.

Thank you,
			kai

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_ // Kai 'wusel' Siering, Villa Straylight, Hamburg, BRD <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
\X/    (Heute wieder im schoenen Sietland: <hactar.hanse.de!straylight!wusel>)

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'Mercy...' I think the only way it'll survie more than a fortnight of me at
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