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From: geoff@athena.mit.edu (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: old minix articles
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Date: 13 Mar 91 08:15:41 GMT
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Sean Eric Fagan:
>Henry or Geoff, if you're reading this, can we please get a time limit in
>dnews?

As we've been saying recently in the news.all groups, stale article
rejection is coming soon in C news.  Depending on how quickly Henry wants to
get the next patch out, stale article rejection may have to be explicitly
enabled at compile time; a better solution will follow.

On a related note, our current relaynews has observed that some sites put
out articles with Date: headers containing no timezone (apparently due to a
bug in gnus or gnews, fixed by Ed Vielmetti) and other sites (notably in
Australia and New Zealand) are putting out local time and incorrectly
labelling it GMT.  Sites that generate Date: headers in odd ways (notably
those that bypass inews):  please verify that your posting software gets
them right.  (Currently inews doesn't touch existing Date: headers; the next
patch will make it canonicalise dates in such headers.)