Re: Limiting Newsgroup Read

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:00

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 In article <199603230101.AA01823@moroder.demon.co.uk>
  Stephen Mulrine <robotron@moroder.demon.co.uk> said:-

>In demon.ip.support.atari, guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) wrote:
>>The first line of nntp.dat looks like this ...
>>news.demon.co.uk 960320 150222
>
>It's just occurred to me..  This strategy is only going to be good for
>another four years, isn't it?  I wouldn't like to think what will happen
>when the server thinks it's 000000 or later.  The very least you could
>expect would be to lose all the news which arrived on the server between
>the last time you dialled up in 1999 and the first time you dialled up in
>2000.  Time for a fix, perhaps?

Good point that. I bet an awful lot of software is going to break and 
I have no idea what the solutions will be. Does anybody else know?


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk

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