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to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2020-02-11 22:17:00
subject: beyond March 19 2038

Hi August.

11 Feb 20 19:50:20, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 AA>>> Y2K-broken programs have probably left the FTN scene gracefully.

 AI>> I hope so.. but we do have pktdate should the need arise..

 AA> That reminds me, I recently discovered a date problem when I used
 AA> Tommi's BBS (ie logged in manually) to send a netmail few weeks ago. His
 AA> Concord BBS software produced a future date of 2056.  LOL

 AA>   Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2056 21:45:16 GMT
 AA>   Message-ID: 
 AA>   References: 
 AA>   X-JAM-From: August Abolins 
 AA>   X-JAM-To: Martin Foster 
 AA>   X-JAM-MSGID: 2:221/360 1ced0c7d
 AA>   X-JAM-REPLYID: 2:310/31.3 f99352d3
 AA>   X-JAM-PID: Concord 0.01 Beta-30d OS/2  ser#cc38c58d

 AA> I should drop by and see if he had a chance to hack netmails with
 AA> pktdate.

No, not yet. The problem is still there. Pktdate is able to fix every outbound
message but it is not in operation yet.

Or I can shut down the bbs. :)

'Tommi

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