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y2k bugfix - slurp Linux/Unix USENET

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From: C. Newport
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00

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Y2K BUGFIX - slurp

Affected systems: Some Linux systems, may also have been ported 
                  to other Unix variants.

Affected functions: Slurp is a program which downloads news to a 
	local NNTP server from an ISP server using NEWNEWS.
	Affected systems will not be able to retrieve USENET
        articles from their upstream server.

Failure mode: slurp keeps that date/time that news was last fetched
	in /usr/lib/news/slurp.[ISPNAME] in the format YYMMDD HHMMSS
	A y2k bug writes this date/time as 1YYMMDD HHMMSS
	Remote NNTP server returns '500 Bad date error'

Solution: slurp appears to be 'no longer maintained'.
	Replace with suck ( available from most Linux mirrors)
	or nntpget ( part of inn distribution from www.isc.org ).

Quick hack: Use an editor to snip off the offending '1' after
	each usage of slurp or use a script to do this.

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From: crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com (C. Newport)
Subject: y2k bugfix - slurp Linux/Unix USENET
Date: 2000/01/01
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