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From: waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Warning to W-News users
Message-ID: <9103303892@minixug.mugnet.org>
Date: 30 Mar 91 15:53:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.140045.8794@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Organization: MINIX User Group Holland (NLMUG)   -  MUGNET  -
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rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) wrote:
> Having just installed the latest patches to C-News, I've discovered they
> tickle a bug in Fred van Kempen's W-News with fatal results.  The date
> format in the Date: header does not conform to RFC822/RFC1036 rules.  
> Previously, C-News tolerated this but with the latest patches it logs the
> error and drops the articles onto the floor without passing them on.  Since
> my site is the relay for comp.os.minix to and from Fred and his connected sites,
> this is especially bad news for him until the bug is fixed.

I just posted the 3.00 version of W-NEWS world-wide.  This (yet-final) version
fixes that.  All previous releases of W-NEWS should be deleted on arrival of
these postings...

Fred.