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to: andrew clarke
from: Jerry Schwartz
date: 1997-09-06 15:25:38
subject: Year 2000

[Sep 03, 97 - 00:13] andrew clarke of 3:635/728.4{at}fidonet wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

ac> 30 Aug 97 21:44, Jerry Schwartz (1:142/928) wrote to All:

>> I just tried setting my system date to the year 2000, and Msged/386 
>> v4.00 recorded the year as "70".

ac> * Forwarded from MSGED_ECHO by andrew clarke (3:635/728.4{at}fidonet).
ac> * Originally by: andrew clarke (3:635/728.4{at}fidonet), 25 Oct 96 02:21.
ac> * Originally to: All (0/0).

Well, I guess it didn't seem that urgent back then.  Thanks.

Actually, I've started to fear that the year 2000 will do more damage to
FidoNet than anything else has.  Think of all of the orphaned software
which holds our systems together: by-date file killers, nodelist
processors, etc.

Jerry Schwartz
@EOT:

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