🚀 go-pugleaf

Dan Glover wrote:

> In article <84kr0a$6u9$1@hek.netix.org.uk>, C. Newport
> <crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:
> >Y2K BUGFIX - slurp
>

[snipped source code fix ]

> >       Replace with suck ( available from most Linux mirrors)
> >       or nntpget ( part of inn distribution from www.isc.org ).
>
> Both of which, IIRC, use a mechanism other than NEWNEWS.  For anyone who
> currently uses this method *and* multiple newsfeeds this will (a)
> require a bit of re-configuration work and (b) make collection slightly
> slower in theory.

nntpget has a NEWNEWS option and is fully supported as part of inn.
the author of slurp seems to have vanished so I prefer to use a supported
option. It does everything that suck does and more.

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

Agreed - the quick hack just keeps things running until you fix it
properly.