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|    mark lewis to Phil Kimble    |
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|    18 May 18 11:20:42    |
       On 2018 May 17 22:56:46, you wrote to All:                      PK> For some odd reason I suddenly have an obsession to install a offline mail        PK> door. After d/ling BlueWave Mail Door,                     Bluewave stuff must all be patched for y2k... doors and clients... without the       patch, there will be random numbers in the To and/or From fields... the       problem is the two digit year is calculated by subtracting 1900 from the       current year... that gives a value greater than 99... they don't ensure that       the returned value is only two digits aka result := mod(result,100)... it is       an overlooked flaw that stems from doing math calcs on the year instead of       string work with substr...               http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/              there's two ways to handle the y2k problem... neither is official and never       can be... the preferred one, true patch of binaries, is at the very top of the       page... the other one is mainly user-side but can be run on the BBS side... it       is down in the 3rd section of the files list... it is not a patch but a glue       program used when the file is (un)zipped...                      PK> I am curiouswht the others are & if they are worth looking into? OLMS        PK> will be the next adventure...                     OLMS stopped working properly over here... when it would shell to zip up the       files to send to the user, it would stop with some weird sort of memory       allocation error... looks to me to be maybe an indicator of a pirated copy but       the reg key is the free one...                     )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Poo poo occurs.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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