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In d.i.support article <356BD701.FF6@amc.de>
   Chris Croughton <crough45@amc.de> writes:
>Forwarded for people still developing / maintaining SNews...
>
>Dr John Stockton wrote in uk.tech.y2k:
>
[snip comments on 2-digit years in Date: header]
>> Another search has revealed the five newsreaders, and that we have more
>> than one SNewser - but I'll not give the personal names ...
>> 
>> X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4
>> X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.30
>> X-Newsreader: GNU Emacs 18.59.2
>> ?  (Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.)
>> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1157
[snip]

We have to add CPPnews to this, I'm afraid.  I know that Nikki Locke is
not actively maintaining it, but I still like it.

[quoting from Son-Of-1036]
>>    The year SHOULD be given as four digits, and posting  agents
>>    SHOULD  enforce this; however, relayers MUST accept the two-
>>    digit form, and MUST interpret it  as  having  the  implicit
>>    prefix "19".
>>        NOTE: Two-digit year numbers can, should, and must
>>        be phased out by 1999.

I've been trying in a desultory manner to compile CPPnews for the last
year or so, but I don't have Zortech 3.0.  The nearest I've found is
Zortech 3.1, which doesn't like the UIT source, and my C++ is too weak
to fix it, whilst TC++3 and BC++4.5 compile the UIT (with a couple of
changes which Nikki kindly gave me) but don't grok the main program.
I don't like to presume too much on his spare time, so has anyone else,
as a registered CPPnews user, got the sources and succesfully compiled
the whole of it ?

Courtesy copy by mail to Nikki ...

Nick Leverton