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OT: A Plea to Posters

Barton Brow

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Barton Brow » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Could everyone *please* set their computer clocks to at least the
current year? Many of us have our NG prefs set to purge older messages,
and messages dated in 01, or next month, just sit there. The message
dates are generated by your computer's clock, so give us all a braek and
do the right thing...

BB

Stephen Ferguso

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Stephen Ferguso » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00


You sure it's not your newsreader?  I don't see a single message with a
non-2000 date in the last 1000 postings.  I'm using Outlook, but I checked
with Pine and also found no strange dates.

Stephen

Arto Wik

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Arto Wik » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Oh! It was not my computer, it is the recommended newsreader program
in our Department of Computer Science(sic.!).

Arto

Mike Barlo

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Mike Barlo » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00

    "Scotty" has his date set one month ahead..  March posts for him are set
for April.  "FluffyPoney" has a 2001 date.  These are the two that got me.
There are also some that either have their time set wrong (in hours and
minutes) or their ISP takes a while to post them.  They also get to me as my
OE always starts with the oldest message..  about 30 messages prier to the
first of the newest.  It's just a bit annoying and doesn't bother me that
much but, would be nice if they would set their clocks right.

    There are Applications out and about that can log on to some places that
keep an accurate time.  Then the applications can set your computers clocks
to them.  But again, it's not important but would be nice to be able to have
the messages set to at least close to the right time.




>> Could everyone *please* set their computer clocks to at least the
>> current year? Many of us have our NG prefs set to purge older messages,
>> and messages dated in 01, or next month, just sit there. The message
>> dates are generated by your computer's clock, so give us all a braek and
>> do the right thing...

>> BB

>You sure it's not your newsreader?  I don't see a single message with a
>non-2000 date in the last 1000 postings.  I'm using Outlook, but I checked
>with Pine and also found no strange dates.

>Stephen

Stephen Ferguso

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Stephen Ferguso » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Funny... I don't even see these guys on PINE or Outlook.  So you're one step
ahead of me, in that you get their posts.  Strange.

Stephen

Mike Barlo

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Mike Barlo » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00

    It's the "Time Travelers" patch.  Don't you have it yet?

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>>     "Scotty" has his date set one month ahead..  March posts for him are
>set
>> for April.  "FluffyPoney" has a 2001 date.  These are the two that got
me.
>> There are also some that either have their time set wrong (in hours and

>Funny... I don't even see these guys on PINE or Outlook.  So you're one
step
>ahead of me, in that you get their posts.  Strange.

>Stephen

Alexander Mar

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Alexander Mar » Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:00:00

sorry, I suffered this problem, it's a Y2K bug. I'Ve corrected it.

cheers,
Alex

Barton Brow

OT: A Plea to Posters

by Barton Brow » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00


> You sure it's not your newsreader?  I don't see a single message with a
> non-2000 date in the last 1000 postings.  I'm using Outlook, but I checked
> with Pine and also found no strange dates.

> Stephen

Really? Well, Outlook I could understand, since it's never worked and it
never will, but Pine should have picked these up.... oh, and no, it's
not my newsreader -- I use a real one.

These three are from the wonderful gentleman behind the spamblocker and
WarezDood (isn't it interesting that most people who use spam blockers
are of this personality type?) who regaled us with this reply to someone
calling him on using a pirated version of a product:

"If I was a mature person [and he goes on to prove conclusively he's not
even close -- BB] it wouldn't bother me that this ***er called me an
arsshole and told me to go ---- myself, but I'm not. So ---- my ---- you
donkey raping ---eater (learned that from southpark!)."

It's truly comforting that sub***s are learning something from
"Southpark". Too bad he can't learn to reset his Dad's computer clock,
or get an *** (assuming any are living with him) to do it for him:

Subject: Re: f12000 = shit
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:44:04 +1000

Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services

Subject: Re: F-1 2000 may not be that bad... (kinda long, graphics settings)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:57:51 +1000

Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services

Subject: Re: All of you ***s playing warez F1 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:26:35 +1000

Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services

With this "one month ahead" setting, his messages don't clean up (and do
they ever need to!) for 30 days. Of course, as a WarezDood, we probably
won't hear from him again until his airplane glue runs out.

Now THSI gentleman, on the other hand, may have a problem with his News Service.

Subject: Re: Le Mans
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:47:47 +0000

Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service

Subject: Re: Intel 800Mhz or AMD 1Ghz?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:39:58 +0000

Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service


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