Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Strange messages from B news expire
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.161114.13502@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4793@borabora.omni.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 16:11:14 GMT

In article <4793@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
>I have been getting *hundreds* of these messages every night from
>expire.  Can anyone tell me what they mean and how to get rid of them?
> ...
>  Oct 11 03:53    news    expire: : Unparsable date "184482407"
>  Oct 11 03:53    news    expire: : Unparsable date "184482408"

Methinks you are running a current B inews/rnews with an old expire,
or have made a configuration mistake that amounts to the same thing.
A while ago, B News acquired the option of generating a C-News-style
history file, with numeric dates, to permit use with C News expire.
Sounds like you're using that with an expire that doesn't understand
the new format.
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