Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future??? Message-ID: <1991Mar29.155944.5982@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 15:59:44 GMT References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 20 In article <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden) writes: > >Ok - where did I blow it? :-) I installed the latest patches for C-News >and all of a sudden I dropped ~250 articles last night, ie: > >Mar 29 01:54:43.684 uwm.edu - Date: too >far in the future: `29 Mar 91 04:35:00 GMT' An obvious guess is that perhaps someone accidently set your time to 1990 by mistake, and it went unnoticed for a while. I don't know how you would tell whether this guess is true - perhaps look at some mail headers of messages processed at that time. Anyway, adding the year to the log message in ~news/log would be helpful in these cases. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940