Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8013 comp.os.vms:39104 news.software.anu-news:2923 Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.os.vms,news.software.anu-news,vmsnet.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!stealth From: stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) Subject: Re: Important TESTED patch for dxrn/mxrn Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 May 91 03:22:00 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor References: <1991May24.082757@mccall.com> In article <1991May24.082757@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: >Sorry about the last one, this patch produces RFC822 compatible dates as >best I can tell, and hopefully this will statisfy C news. > [...] > >BTW, it has been suggested to me in email that it would be easier to fix >C news. Do you care to write software that will shuffle through all the possible permutations of Date: lines and fix them up to something that might not even be correct? Why not just fix the source of the problem, which is your soft- ware that is generating non-compliant Date: header lines. > The authors and proponents of C news don't consider this a problem, >they did it on purpose, and as far as I can tell, most of them really don't >care, since their articles aren't being dropped. The bottom line is that >they refuse to do anything about this, and since many sites run C news, >the only practical option is to conform to their software. I would like to Get it straight -- you're not conforming to their software, you're conforming to internationally recognized standards for Date: line format. Your software was bad all along, and C-news has finally started enforcing the standard. That's all there is to it. -- Mike Pelletier | "Wind & waves are breakdowns in the commitment of The University of Michigan | getting from here to there, but they are the con- College of Engineering | ditions for sailing. Not something to eliminate, Student/Systems Admin | but something to dance with."