🚀 go-pugleaf

Please excuse the slightly odd combination of Newsgroups: - I've set
followups to news.software.b which seems to be in desparate need of
"on-topic" discussion...

As mentioned previously I've been looking at actual or potential Year
2000 issues with cnews and the accompanying nntp server.  I've gathered
my thoughts together at:

http://www.dangl.freeserve.co.uk/linux/news/y2k.html

There's also a patch for slurp and some infomation about INN. 

Basically for cnews itself the problem is confined to the handful of
articles still encountered with two-digit dates.  The NNTP Reference
Implementation needs fixes for NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS.  If you're
prepared to drop articles with two-digit dates and don't offer news to
clients/other machines via NEWNEWS/NEWGROUPS then you can probably
ignore all this.

I would particularly appreciate informed comment from those in
news.software.b about anything I've missed or which could be done
better.  Despite a fair amount of searching I've been unable to locate
any other firm information about Y2K readiness of cnews/NNTP Reference
Implementation.  I am happy for my patches and commentary to be made
available elsewhere, with appropriate acknowledgement.

Dan

-- 
Dan Glover (dan@dangl.demon.co.uk)
Today's Excuse:
  your process is not ISO 9000 compliant