January 24, 2003
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
Earlier this month, it came to my attention that email notices being sent from the Newted Community Forums were arriving with goofed-up date headers. I had never noticed the problem myself, probably because my primary email client determined the message sent date using a different header field. At any rate, these notices were showing up at the bottom of a lot of people’s inboxes, rather than at the top, causing a fair bit of confusion in the process. Ever on the prowl to fix silly little things like this, I ended up tracking the behavior back to a Y2K bug that exists in cranky old versions of the Ultimate Bulletin Board scripts. Cranky old versions like the one that came with the Cobalt Qube when I bought it a couple of years ago. At that time, the patch for the problem was freely available. Now it isn’t. Alas, the license information for this particular copy of UBB is long gone and there’s no way of downloading an update from the Infopop site without a valid license number. So I took the plunge and bought a new license for the current version of UBB.Classic. Not only will this fix the kerflunky date problem, but I’m looking forward to some enhanced forum functionality and other groovy Perl scriptiness. That being said, I’ll mention that I’m currently running the Newted Community site as a public service and paying for this software upgrade out of my own pocket. I really don’t mind, but it would be nice if I could recoup a bit of the cost from the community it serves. If you’d like to help offset my cost of this software — which will end up being around $200US — feel free to contribute something as a Newted Community Donation via PayPal. All philanthropic gestures will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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