Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS Message-ID: <1991May14.194730.9164@twinsun.com> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Nntp-Posting-Host: ata Organization: Twin Sun, Inc References: Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 19:47:30 GMT ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >| 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. >| >| mathew >Is this true!! C-News should be corrected if this is the case. It's not true. Perhaps this false report stemmed from a bug in old versions of the NN news reader, which mishandled four-digit dates. This bug was fixed starting with NN version 6.4.13, released in February. I wouldn't be surprised if other news software has similar bugs, because the RFC standards are a little disorganized here. It's not immediately obvious that RFC 1036, which specifies the format of Usenet articles, is amended by RFC 1123, which adds (and recommends) four-digit years.