This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Posting in the Future
Article: 8909 of alt.hackers From: sean@wheel.ucdavis.edu (Sean Logan) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Posting in the Future Date: 19 Oct 1995 03:09:03 GMT Organization: Davis Community Network - Davis, California, USA Lines: 20 Approved: wumpus@hunt.the.com Message-ID: 464fgf$4ir@mark.ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
In response to Andy's request for "funny" headers, I whipped up and article, and sent it via port 119 to my news host. I had set the Date: line in it to 1999, and when I ended the message, I got: 411 Article posted in the future. Yow. Is my news host really going to wait 5 years and then post the message? If so, I see a unique way of making time-capsuals :) ObHack: Going to try the same thing again, but date it a few days in the future rather than 5 years to see if this is really true. ~~~ Sean Logan "There's no 'them' -- it's all us" sean@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us http://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us/~sean/spam-faq.html