If you want to be a true purist, I would say that the MILLENNIUM (two L's,
two N's, kids :P) began three or four years ago (exactly when, it would be
difficult to determine).
The current calendar was based on Dionysius Exiguss' estimation of when
Jesus was born, using religious writings and gospels from The Bible as a
guideline for the determination. He began numbering the years "Anno Domini"
(the year of our lord) with number "1 (one)", since (back then) the Romans
had no clue about the number "0 (zero)".
Unfortunately, nearly every modern scholar agrees that Dionysius' got it
wrong. It is generally known (in those circles) that Jesus was born some
time between 7 BC and 4 BC (using Dionysius' current calendrics). Most, in
fact, believe that he was born in 4 BC, when Herod died.
---[ Following text (c) 1997-1999 "Countdown 2000, Inc." ]---
---[ begin quote ]---
Two thousand years from the period January 1, 8 B.C. through December 31, 4
B.C. is January 1, 1993 through December 31, 1997 (remember there was no
year zero, hence the seeming addition error). Thus, by most accounts the
second millennium from the birth of Christ was, in all cases, concluded by
December 31st, 1997.
---[ end quote ]---
So, no matter when we all believe the Millennium began, it's a silly, stupid
argument. The vast majority of Earth's human inhabitants (the small
percentage of Earth's life that cares about such things) will be celebrating
tomorrow night. In light of that, ladies and gentlement, have a pint of
Guinness for me, and Happy New Millennium!
:)
Dustin
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 2:17 AM
To: Thomas Foerster
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sore it for y2k and then resend it
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:02:39AM +0100, Thomas Foerster wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> one of our customers shut down their mailservers from 31.12.1999 to
1.1.2000
> I have to exchange the forward to a Maildir delivery.
> On 2.1.2000 i have to send all the stored mail to their mailserver.
>
> How can i do this ?
> When i try qmail-inject i have to give him the recipient adress ... but
that would
> meen to parse thousands of messages by hand and call thousands of time
qmail-inject ...
>
> How can this be automated? I'll just want to e.g. pipe every mail to a
programm
> and this one looks for the "To:" and sends the mail there.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Thomas
>
Dont do anything.. the mailserver will try to send it to the recipient
the next 7 days (thats the default value anyway), if unsuccessful the
mail will be deleted..
Best regards
Michael Boman
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