Acca.599 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!cca!z Thu Apr 29 11:27:36 1982 inews -e I just received the following message from one of our news users. Perhaps someone out there can enlighten us as to the proper date format? >From dee (Donald Eastlake) ttyd0 Thu Apr 29 11:14:02 1982 To: z Subject: inews -e How about putting an example of a date format that works into the manual page for inews? I certain don't plan to ever bother trying to use that feature again unless it is made easier for me. Barfing and ignoring your news due to parsing problems on the expiration date only after you have terminated the whole news message seems like another example of abysmal human engineering in UNIX. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.