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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <730@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 08:38:45 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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In article <185@icdi10.UUCP> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>My news leaves me a daily message about all the bad newsgroups that have come 
>in.  How can I check into the validity of this?  Is someting being scrambled
>or what?  This is a daily occurrence.

I'm not going to talk about this, but something related that I noticed
in your article and lately in my mail messages.

>May 27 00:29	local	Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"

Now for nearly a month, I have been getting mail that says this.  Now
please do not tell me it is the same articles hanging around since
we have a 3-day expire on comp (7 days on sources), and 2 days on
everything else--that is if expire does not get the picture that
we are nearly 20 years past this date :-)

Where do these come from?  Does the SysAdmin for the site producing
these know about them?  How does one find out who, what, where, etc.
concerning articles about these dates?

Inquiring minds... well... are just curious!	:-)

-- 
scott barman
{gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott