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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS
Keywords: CNEWS MUST DIE!!!
Message-ID: <g5No26w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 9 May 91 14:15:27 GMT
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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I have been fiddling around with Rodney's UUCP modules (Mercury UUCP) and the
GUS GEM UUCP Shell for the past month or two, trying to decide whether to
keep them or rewrite them.

I has recently been drawn to my attention that said software is generating
Usenet Date: headers with the year in full -- that is,  17 Jun 1991 instead
of 17 Jun 91.

THE NEW "IMPROVED" C-NEWS WILL SILENTLY DISCARD ALL SUCH ARTICLES, WITHOUT
WARNING THE POSTER.

If you use your ST to post to Usenet via UUCP, it is quite likely that Cnews
sites around the world have been quietly throwing away all your postings
without even trying to tell you. It happened to me.

Yes, Mercury should create date fields in the proper format; but equally,
Cnews should not throw away articles which it is perfectly capable of
correcting the headers of and of delivering.

If you think that this Cnews behaviour is unacceptable, I would suggest
complaining in news.software.b. If we all scream loudly enough, perhaps they
will fix it.


mathew